Japanese Grammar Exercise with Instantaneous Composition Method

The Most Effective Exercise for Japanese Grammar

Material Information

If you would like to utilize your mobile devices or hear them off-line, you can download them via the following URL. Additionally, we have labeled the audio files as follows: “segment 1” as “S1”, “segment 2” as ”S2”, and “segment 3” as “S3.” For example, if you would like to hear the audio file: "na-adjective and i-adjective," please use No. S1-02.

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*Please also check the article “How to Proceed with the Instantaneous Composition Method” if you haven’t already read it.

Table of Contents

Segment 1

1. Particles: 「は」「も」「が」
2. na-adjective and i-adjective
3. Particles with Verbs: 「を (Direct Object)」「に (Target)」
4. Particles: 「に (location of existence)」「で (Location of Action)」
5. Particles: 「に (Time)」「で (Means)」
6. Negative Verbs 「...ない」
7. Progressive Tense and Ongoing State 「...ている」
8. Past Tense 「...た」
9. Expressing Inanimate and Animate Existence 「ある」「いる」
10. Relative Clauses
11. Expressing Possessives and Modifier 「の」
12. Verb Clauses 「こと」「の」
13. Parallel Markers: 「と」「や」「か」
14. Wh-question 「なに」「なん」
15. Wh-question 「どの」「どちら」
16. Wh-question 「いつ」「何なん + Time Counter」
17. Wh-question 「誰だれ」「どこ」
18. How Many or Much 「いくつ」「いくら」「なん」
19. Wh-question 「どんな」「どれくらい」
20. Wh-question 「なぜ」「どうやって」
21. Explanatory 「のだ」「のです」
22. Basic Adverbs
23. Sentence-ending Particles 「ね」「よ」「よね」

Segment 2

1. Invitation 「...ませんか」「...ましょう」
2. Making Offers 「...ましょうか」
3. Relative Clauses with 「か」
4. Using Question Words in an Affirmative Sentence
5. Expressing a Sequence of States and Verbs: te-form
6. Expressing Reason or Causation 「から」「ので」
7. Expressing Contrary Results with Complaint or Surprise 「のに」
8. Expressing Contradiction 「が」「けど」
9. Expressing Multiple Reasons, Actions or States 「し」「...たりする」
10. Perfect Tense 「もう…た」「まだ…ない」
11. Experience 「...ことがある」
12. Expressing Unexpected Results 「ちゃう」「しまう」
13. Expressing  「...てある (Resultant States)」「...ておく (Preparation for the Future)」
14. Motion Verbs 「行いく」「来くる」 with the te-form
15. Potential Form 「 ...ことが出来できる」「（ら）れる」
16. Potential Form 「見みえる」「聞きこえる」「ありえる」
17. Using "Adjective + する"
18. Using する or なる with the に Particle 「...（よう）になる / する」
19. Conditionals 「と」「なら」
20. Conditionals 「ば」「たら」
21. Making Suggestions 「どうですか」
22. Expressing "Must" or "Have to" 「...だめ」「...いけない」「...ならない」
23. Expressing Permission 「...てもいい (May)」
24. Giving Advice 「ほうがいい (Should)」

Segment 3

1. Expressing Desire 「...たい」「欲ほしい」
2. Direct and Indirect Quotes 「と」「って」
3. Defining and Describing 「という」
4. Trying Something or Attempting to Do Something 「...てみる」「...とする」
5. Expressing Giving and Receiving 「あげる」「くれる」「もらう」
6. Making requests 「ください」「くれますか」「もらえますか」
7. Making Negative Requests 「～ないで」 
8. Causative Form  「させる」
9. Command Form 「なさい」「ろ」「な」
10. Expressing "Just" and "Only" 「だけ」「しか...ない」
11. Expressing Comparison 「より」 「...の方ほうが」
12. Expressing Judgment 「よう」「みたい」「そう」
13. Expressing Similarity or Metaphor  「よう」「みたい」
14. Expressing Hearsay 「そうだ」「らしい」
15. Expressing Certainty and Uncertainty 「はずだ」「違ちがいない」「かもしれない」
16. Expressing Easy or Difficult to Do 「やすい」「にくい」「づらい」
17. Passive Sentence
18. Expressing "Before" and "After" 「...前まえに」「...後あと」
19. Expressing "Without" 「ないで」「ず」
20. Expressing Specific Time Actions or Events 「ながら」「...間あいだに」「ばかり」

Note

We have written English translations with Japanese grammatical structures in order to focus on the target sentence patterns. Therefore, some of them may not be natural in terms of English grammar. In addition, words in parentheses are omitted in Japanese.

The Instantaneous Composition Method requires prior knowledge of Japanese grammar. Thus, it's more effective to proceed with this program after or while reading following grammar guidebooks.

• Amazon – Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese I
• Amazon – Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese II
• Japanese Grammar Guide (Tae Kim)

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