Elementary Assignment 2

 18 June 08:08   

    In English, the verb to be serves two purposes: It acts as the copula, and it acts as the verb for existence. However, in some languages, including Japanese, these two verbs are separate—so it helps to accept an compassionate of the aberration amid the two usages.

    A bandage can be anticipation of as an equals sign: it equates two things to anniversary other. In the book That is a dog, is is the copula. In the book The dog is inside, you dont beggarly that the dog and central are the aforementioned thing; you beggarly that the dog exists inside.

    These two usages accept altered verbs in Japanese, so itd be acceptable to get acclimated to it now. Actuality are some examples:

    Using to be as a copula:

    Using to be to beggarly existence:

    In Japanese, ?? is the copula. It is acclimated to agree two things. Lets attending into advice the sentence, This is a dictionary, into Japanese.

    Since Japanese uses subject-object-verb chat order, the bandage (and all additional verbs) appear endure in the sentence. If we were to anatomy the English book in this way, itd go like this: This a concordance is. If we anon construe the words to Japanese and bandy in a atom to separate and denote the action of the words in the sentence, then able-bodied be done.

    The chat is, as I mentioned above, becomes ??. We can use ?? and ??? for this and dictionary, respectively. In this instance, ?? is our accountable (actually our topic), so we add the affair atom ? afterwards it (the direct-object, dictionary, does not charge a atom if acclimated with the copula.) Now, our book is ?????????, which is a complete, barefaced Japanese sentence.

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