Re: Weird / Complicated / Tough Japanese Grammar Questions
Thanks! Although I should probably have explained that this was a public forum comment. The tone seems to be something like you'd see in an office. A blend of casual to create friendly, 'we're together in this' feeling, but plenty desu and masu because, 'we're professionals here'.. or so it seems to me. I agree with the 日本語のレブルはどれか知らないから being too informal, although I think I'd prefer to use the masu form and keep kara as a tag on, to keep that, friendly but not too friendly feeling! I really do slip into casual style too much though and I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed that out. I don't have friends on this forum and I'm not well known, so maybe polite is better for now?
I struggled to make up my mind about wa or ga there. Ga is always used with a question word, and I've used dore, but I think the rule is it's always ga after an interrogative. Ga sounded wrong at the time of writing, but now I think about it, ga emphasises the part of the sentence before the particle, wa draws attention to what follows.. is my level the important part here, or the question I'm pondering? I dunno, they both sound right, but that makes it two votes for ga, so ga it is!! ^^. In casual Japanese, it's often fine to drop topic and subject markers, so I'm lazy. If I don't know, I leave it out, so just don't learn!
Thanks for the feedback, your advice is always gratefully received!
Originally posted by Hoho
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I struggled to make up my mind about wa or ga there. Ga is always used with a question word, and I've used dore, but I think the rule is it's always ga after an interrogative. Ga sounded wrong at the time of writing, but now I think about it, ga emphasises the part of the sentence before the particle, wa draws attention to what follows.. is my level the important part here, or the question I'm pondering? I dunno, they both sound right, but that makes it two votes for ga, so ga it is!! ^^. In casual Japanese, it's often fine to drop topic and subject markers, so I'm lazy. If I don't know, I leave it out, so just don't learn!
Thanks for the feedback, your advice is always gratefully received!
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