[grammar rush]
I'm going to rush through a grammar guide. One chapter per day. One journal entry on Lang-8 per chapter.
Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese > Grammar Guide
date |
topic |
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2013-10-05 |
Expressing State-of-Being |
2013-10-06 |
Introduction to Particles (は、も、が) |
2013-10-07 |
Adjectives |
2013-10-08 |
Verb Basics Negative Verbs Past Tense |
2013-10-09 |
Particles used with verbs (を、に、へ、で) |
2013-10-10 |
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs |
2013-10-11 |
Descriptive Relative Clauses and Sentence Order |
2013-10-12 |
Noun-related Particles (と、や、とか、の) |
2013-10-13 |
- |
2013-10-14 |
Adverbs and Sentence-ending particles |
2013-10-15 |
Polite Form and Verb Stems (~です、~ます) |
2013-10-16 |
Addressing People |
2013-10-17 |
The Question Marker (か) |
2013-10-18 |
Compound Sentences (て-form、から、ので、のに、が、けど、し、~たりする) |
2013-10-19 |
Other uses of the te-form (~ている、~てある、~ておく、~ていく、~てくる) |
2013-10-20 |
Potential Form |
2013-10-21 |
Using する and なる with the に particle (~[よう]になる/する) |
2013-10-22 |
Conditionals (と、なら、ば、たら) |
2013-10-23 |
Expressing "must" or "have to" (~だめ、~いけない、~ならない、~ても) |
2013-10-24 |
- |
2013-10-25 |
Desire and Suggestions (たい、欲しい、volitional、~たらどう) |
2013-10-26 |
Performing an action on a relative clause (と、って) |
2013-10-27 |
Defining and Describing (という) |
2013-10-28 |
Trying something out or attempting to do something (~てみる、volitional+とする) |
2013-10-29 |
Giving and Receiving (あげる、やる、くれる、もらう) |
2013-10-30 |
Making requests (~ください、~ちょうだい、~なさい、command form) |
2013-10-31 |
- |
2013-11-01 |
Numbers and Counting |
2013-11-02 |
Casual Patterns and Slang |
2013-11-03 |
Review and more sentence-ending particles |
2013-11-04 |
Causative and Passive Verbs |
2013-11-05 |
Honorific and Humble Forms |
2013-11-06 |
Things that happen unintentionally (~てしまう、~ちゃう/~じゃう) |
2013-11-07 |
Special expressions with generic nouns (こと、ところ、もの) |
2013-11-08 |
Expressing various levels of certainty (かもしれない、でしょう、だろう) |
2013-11-09 |
Expressing amounts (だけ、のみ、しか、ばかり、すぎる、Amount+も、ほど、さ) |
2013-11-10 |
Various ways to express similarity and hearsay (よう、~みたい、~そう、~そうだ、~らしい、~っぽい) |
2013-11-11 |
Using 方 and よる for comparisons and other functions (より、の方、stem+方、によって、によると) |
2013-11-12 |
Saying something is easy or difficult to do (~やすい、~にくい) |
2013-11-13 |
More negative verbs (ないで、ず、~ん、ぬ) |
2013-11-14 |
Hypothesizing and Concluding (わけ、~とする) |
2013-11-15 |
Expressing time-specific actions (ばかり、とたんに、ながら、まくる) |
2013-11-16 |
- |
2013-11-17 |
Leaving something the way it is (まま、っぱなし) |
2013-11-18 |
Formal Expressions (である、ではない) |
2013-11-19 |
Things that should be a certain way (はず、べき、べく、べからず) |
2013-11-20 |
Expressing the minimum expectation (でさえ、ですら、おろか) |
2013-11-21 |
Showing signs of something (~がる、ばかり、~めく) |
2013-11-22 |
Formal expressions of non-feasibility (~ざるを得ない、やむを得ない、~かねる) |
2013-11-23 |
- |
2013-11-24 |
Tendencies (~がち、~つつ、きらいがある) |
2013-11-25 |
Advanced Volitional (まい、であろう、かろう) |
2013-11-26 |
Covered by something (だらけ、まみれ、ずくめ) |
2013-11-27 |
Advanced proximity of actions (が早いか、や否や、そばから) |
2013-11-28 |
Others (思いきや、がてら、あげく) |