Lesson 10 Grammar

Question 1

Difference between あります and います and what particle are they used with.

Answer 1

Both are used with the particle が

あります is used for inanimate and non-moving things.

います is used for animate and moving things.

They can be used to say, there is X or I have X.

Question 2

赤いノートがあります。

Answer 2

I have a red notebook.

Question 3

How to say something/ someone is somewhere. What interrogatives are used to ask “what” or “who”.

Answer 3

Placeに Xが あります/います

なに: What

だれ: Who

Question 4

あそこにエドワードさんがいます。

Answer 4

Edward is over there.

Question 5

あなたの庭になにがありますか。

Answer 5

What is in your garden?

Question 6

How to say something/ someone is somewhere, but talk about it as the topic of the sentence. Also the noun must be…

Answer 6

Xは placeに あります/います

…something the speaker and listener are aware of.

Question 7

武道館は東京にあります。

Answer 7

The Budokan is in Tokyo.

Question 8

What is the sentence structure used to describe where something/ someone is in relation to something else.

Answer 8

Xの positionに/で

Question 9

机の上に写真があります。

Answer 9

There’s a photo on the desk.

Question 10

写真は机の上にあります。

Answer 10

The photo is on the desk.

Question 11

カフェの外で友達に会いました。

Answer 11

I met a friend outside a café.

Question 12

カフェと本屋の間にスパーがあります。

Answer 12

Between the café and the bookstore, there is a supermarket.

Question 13

How to connect two (or more) nouns in a sentence and what can be placed after the last one to show you have not listed all relevant things that are possible.

Answer 13

Xや Yや Zなど

Question 14

私の本屋の中にハリーポッターやハムレットやフランケンシュタインなどがあります。

Answer 14

In my book shop I have books such as Harry Potter, Hamlet, and Frankenstein.