Japanese Grammar Exercises: Expressing Possessives and Modifier 「の」
Before starting the exercise for expressing possessives and modifier 「の」, please clarify any doubts you may have about the grammatical rules by referring to your grammar guidebook or dictionary. The Instantaneous Composition Method requires you to compose sentences with the target sentence pattern(s) over and over in order to use them almost effortlessly. You should already have the necessary knowledge.
Reference
Genki I - Lesson 1: The particle の, Lesson 2: だれの noun
Instantaneous Composition Exercise for Expressing Possessives and Modifier 「の」
This is not a translation exercise. This is the Instantaneous Composition Exercise. As if a reflexive action, try to create an equivalent Japanese sentence shortly after reading an English script. Try not to think for more than three seconds.
Whose clothes are those? => They are Yamamoto-san’s clothes.
あれは誰の服ですか？ => あれは山本さんの服です。
I’m a school teacher.
私は学校の先生です。
Lee-san is a Chinese student.
リーさんは中国人の学生です。
This is a book about cars.
これは車の本です。
Tokyo is a city of Japan.
東京は日本の都市です。
The roof of the house is red.
家の屋根は赤いです。
Note
The concept of the plurality in Japanese is completely different from English. We never consider items such as clothes to be plural. Therefore, although we showed “those” and “they” in the English script, you need to use singular words based on the object instead of “あれら”.
