Thursday, May 19, 2011

10 pts. Japanese sentence structure...?

Question:


I know the structure is subject object verb, but I have two questions about that.

1. Do sentence particles >ALWAYS< come after >EVERY< word?

2. can you give an example, of >ALL< the sentence "terms" than can be used, and in what order are they to used? Example: 1. subject, 2. object, 3. verb, (insert next possible "terms")

Answer:


1. There aren't particles that come after verbs, so no.
2. Not at all sure what you mean by "terms," but before the verb things can be in almost any order. My old Japanese teacher taught us PPTOV - person, place, time, object, verb.

No comments:

Post a Comment