[aDoBJG] Appendix 8 💮 A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

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The most interesting part of this appendix was the very end with the bit of text and identifying the noun phrases (I can’t remember what the text called it since I read it a couple of days ago). I think it identified for me one of my own struggles:

The point that the long noun phrase can be broken down into several smaller ones that overlap bit by bit until you get to the whole one. And I think sometimes I’m bad at recognizing when I’ve broken down and separated out smaller bits that actually need to go together when reading it with the rest of the sentence.

So happy the appendix had a useful tidbit, but it was very dry to read. :sweat_smile:

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Officially finished!! Hooray!! :tada:

It was actually pretty cool going through the appendixes and realizing that I knew all of the stuff in them now! It wasn’t so long ago that I was a beginner trying to memorize all the exceptions with counters and such… :smiling_face_with_tear:

Agreed on the “Extended Sequential Unit” section being useful! I also struggle with this a lot, especially with the situation in Guideline VI, where the quote marker と overrides Guideline III. Quotes in general are very hard for me!

Here’s an example I literally just got wrong:

Though in this case, I think Guideline III would have saved me if I’d known to pay attention to that, haha!

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