Tired of teaching English grammar when you should be teaching Japanese?

Join the hundreds of teachers no longer wasting class time explaining English grammar — supplement your textbook
with English Grammar for Students of Japanese: The Study Guide for Those Learning Japanese.

Students will learn English grammatical terms and concepts that Japanese textbooks assume they know:

Parts of speech — how to identifyEnglish and Japanese nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions . . .

Functions of words — how to identify English and Japanese subjects, direct and indirect objects . . .

Grammatical terms — explanation of tense, polite vs. plain form, topic . . .

Step-by-step analysis of examples — how to get from an English structure to an equivalent Japanese structure, see example Chapter 23, What is a Predicate?

*Review the English Grammar for Students of Japanese Table of Contents for an overview of the English and Japanese grammatical terms and concepts covered.

Each chapter of English Grammar for Students of Japanese covers one grammar point

In English

• grammar is explained as it relates to English, anticipating concepts necessary for Japanese

In Japanese

• grammar is explained as it relates to Japanese
• examples are in romanized Japanese, with word-for-word meaning and grammatical identification
• possible pitfalls for English speakers

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