[DeepL Translation - needs review] Basic Connections
It explains how words and phrases dovetail, how clauses pair up with other clauses, how sentences come together to create harmonious paragraphs. It explains how words and phrases dovetail, how clauses pair up with other clauses, how sentences come together to create harmonious paragraphs. Since this is a book about the basics it starts with the fundamentals, explaining first the two types of Japanese sentence-"A is B" and "A does B." Then...
A basic grammar book
Basic Connections is dedicated to teaching the student correct and idiomatic ways to form sentences in Japanese; this is a grammar book, but a bit of a grab-bag of grammar. About half of the book is dedicated to forming a basic sentence, while the second half is dedicated to looking at more in-depth mistakes and how they should be fixed. Each example sentence is given in kana/kanji, romaji, and English.
While I like the thought of jumping across a variety of topics to look at common learner m