Sentence Structure Plus Verbs

Sentence Structure　（Ｎａｋａｍａ　Ｃｈ　１－５）

Word Order in Sentences:

 Kimmel’s First Law:  ”Verb Comes Last” repeated 3 times

Sentences with active verbs
 From the great Russian linguist of Japanese language learning, Prof. Titipov

                    TTPOV: Time,  Topic/Subject,   Place,    Object,     Verb (Active)

                                           Ni                     wa       de            wo

  

Sentences with existence verbs

                Place no position ni subject ga arimasu/imasu

Sentences with traveling verbs

              Time    (ni if it has a name or number)  Topic/subject wa Destination ni traveling-verb

Wa/ga pattern sentences

        Topic wa grammatical-subject ga adjective desu.

        Example:  Sensei wa o-sushi ga suki desu.     Sensei likes sushi.  

A = B Sentences

        Subject wa complement desu.     Ａ　は　Ｂ　　です。

　　A is usually a noun, but B can be a noun or an adjective.

Active verbs   (examples)  

たべます、Ｅａｔｓ                        のみます、Ｄｒｉｎｋｓ

　　　かきます、Ｗｒｉｔｅｓ                よみます、Ｒｅａｄｓ

            みます、Ｓｅｅｓ                            ききます、Ｌｉｓｔｅｎｓ－ｔｏ

　　　はじまります、Ｂｅｇｉｎｓ　　おわります、Ｅｎｄｓ

            します、Ｄｏｅｓ、Ｐｌａｙｓ（ｓｐｏｒｔｓ）

            べんきょう　します、Ｓｔｕｄｉｅｓ

Traveling verbs (examples)

            いきます、Ｃｏｍｅｓ                    きます、Ｃｏｍｅｓ

            かえります、Ｒｅｔｕｒｎｓ　ｈｏｍｅ

　　　でます　Ｌｅａｖｅｓ                    はいります、Ｅｎｔｅｒｓ

Existence verbs

            います（Ｅｘｉｓｔｓ，　ａｎｉｍａｔｅ）

            あります　（Ｅｘｉｓｔｓ，　ｉｎａｎｉｍａｔｅ）