Dropping particles in casual speech/songs


Hey i was listening to this song And it felt weird for me when one of these
lines seemed to lack a particle, I am wondering if it is lacking one and it is
ok to do so since it is a song, or if there was no need to a particle in
there...

[君の前前前世から僕は君を探し始めたよ]

Why can I say 探し始めた without a particle, would it be ok to say 探しを始めた？

Is it perhaps like the difference between "I began to look for" vs "I began
looking for" ?

When it's ok to drop a particle in casual speech? I know that if my sentence
contains only one "が" particle it'd not be ok to drop it, but what about
sentences with more particles?

Thanks in advance




No particle has been omitted in your example sentence. You can not say `masu-
stem + を始める` in the first place (unless the "verb" is actually a lexicalized
noun derived from some verb (eg 支払い = payment, 戦い = battle)).

Regardless of whether it's in speech or not, `masu-stem + 始める` is the right
way of saying "start to [verb]", and there must _not_ be any particle in
between.

  * 歩き始める start to walk
  * 見始める start to watch
  * 食べ始める start to eat

Don't ask me why. Japanese language has [tons of 複合動詞 (compound
verbs)](http://vvlexicon.ninjal.ac.jp/en/) which just look like this; 走り出す,
飛び立つ, 動き回る, 出払う, and so on.

Not to be confused with [subsidiary
verbs](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18952/5010), which are small in
number, and always follow the te-form of another verb.




No particle has been omitted in your example sentence. You can not say `masu-
stem + を始める` in the first place (unless the "verb" is actually a lexicalized
noun derived from some verb (eg 支払い = payment, 戦い = battle)).

Regardless of whether it's in speech or not, `masu-stem + 始める` is the right
way of saying "start to [verb]", and there must _not_ be any particle in
between.

  * 歩き始める start to walk
  * 見始める start to watch
  * 食べ始める start to eat

Don't ask me why. Japanese language has [tons of 複合動詞 (compound
verbs)](http://vvlexicon.ninjal.ac.jp/en/) which just look like this; 走り出す,
飛び立つ, 動き回る, 出払う, and so on.

Not to be confused with [subsidiary
verbs](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18952/5010), which are small in
number, and always follow the te-form of another verb.

