Grammar Terms

Question 1

Subject

Answer 1

The person/thing that oerforms an action (with verb predicates) or is what exhibits a certain state (with adjectival noun predicates)

Question 2

Predicate

Answer 2

The part of a sentence that makes a statement about the subject

Question 3

Copula

Answer 3

A word used to link the subject and predicate of a sentence

Question 4

Noun

Answer 4

A word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality

Question 5

Adjective

Answer 5

A word that describes a state and may constitute the predicate at the end of a sentence or be a part of the noun predicate if it was the modifier.

Question 6

Verb

Answer 6

A word that describes an action, state, or occurrence. It may constitute the predicate at the end of a sentence or be part of a noun-predicate when used as a participle/modifier.

Question 7

Auxiliary

Answer 7

An ending that helps construct conjugations in adjectives, verbs, and other auxiliaries

Question 8

Independent Clause

Answer 8

A phrase that stands alone as a complete sentence

Question 9

Plain Speech

Answer 9

Refers to the entire plain speech register in Japanese grammar

Question 10

Plain Style

Answer 10

Refers to the entire Plain Speech grammar in Japanese grammar

Question 11

Plain Style

Answer 11

The plain soeech rendition of any given phrase

Question 12

Plain Form

Answer 12

The basic form of any given phrase

Question 13

Polite Speech

Answer 13

Refers to the entire plain speech register in Japanese grammar

Question 14

Polite Style

Answer 14

The rendition of polite speech with any particular phrasing

Question 15

Polite Form

Answer 15

Refers to polite speech conjugations

Question 16

Case Particle

Answer 16

A particle that attaches to a noun to mark a particular grammatical function/case

Question 17

Intransitive Verb

Answer 17

A verb that only takes a subject and does not take an object