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19 Cards in this Set
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How many types of sentences are there? |
3 |
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What are the three kinds of sentence types? |
1. Ends in verbs 2. Ends in an Adjective 3. ends in Copulas |
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What are the four basic Patters |
- present affirmative (PrA) - present negative (PrN) - past affirmative (PA) - past negative (PN) |
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what does the subject of a sentence in a Verb sentence indicate? |
The person or thing that does the action |
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what does the object of a sentence in a Verb sentence indicate? |
the recipient of the action |
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Where does the verb come in a sentence? |
At the end |
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Do nouns come before or after Verbs? |
Before |
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What are particles |
small words that show the relationship between the nouns and verbs (follow particles) |
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what particle marks the subject of a sentence |
が |
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What particle marks the direct object of a sentence? |
を |
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To indicate that an action will happen in the future, what needs to be done? |
a time word, such as 'tomorrow' or 'next week' needs to be included with the present tense |
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do sentences that end in an adjective contain a verb? |
no |
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Adjective & Copula sentences do no contain ________ & ______ |
1. subjects 2. an object |
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Instead of subjects, what do adjective & copula sentences contain? |
A topic |
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What particle marks the topic of a sentence? |
は |
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What is a copula? |
a linguistic term that refers to the pattern "A is B" (Noun 1 is Noun 2)
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What is the simplest form of the copula |
だ |
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In Copula sentences, do nouns come at the end of the sentence? |
no, they are followed by some form of the copula |
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"to" as in "I went to the shops" is marked by what particle? |
へ (e) |
