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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.