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Sentence Structure

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Sentence Structure

Goal

Read the clause as a chain of chunks instead of word-by-word guessing.

Key ideas

  • Japanese often ends the sentence with the verb or copula.
  • The topic comes first, but the sentence can still shift emphasis through particles.
  • Chunking the clause into topic, object, action, and detail makes reading easier.

Practice

  • Mark the topic and the action before you translate.
  • Read short examples with the final verb kept in view.
  • Use the copula です as a stable anchor while you learn sentence shape.
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