Grammar & Verbs Clear and simple ea lire (Hi cyOe ice MCh cS ® Covers all the key points of Bleed CUE Le CNH aecm nd ou CUcy ® Thousands of examples © All grammatical terms explained ier la ® Detailed tables of Japanese Adem eat) Author, Jonathan Bunt, is Associate Director Cymer Centre at the University of Manchester. Reon CM A mater MUy-Ur ime oe ere Ca Linguistic Science at the University of Reading. O x FORD 1 0-19-860382-7 www.oup.com AskOxford cmv I 198 Oxford Dictionaries Passionate about language £9.99 rap $14.95 603825" >OXFORD ‘UNIVERSITY HSS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP ‘Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford it furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship and education by publishing worldwide in ‘Oxford New York ‘Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai ‘Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melboumne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto ‘Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Oxford University Press 2003 First published 2003 ‘All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, ‘stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, ‘without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction ‘outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0-19-860382-7 10987654321 ‘Typeset by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong, Printed in Great Britain by Clays Lad, Bungay, Suffolk Preface ‘Acknowledgements Parts of speech Topic, comment, and predicate In-group and out-group Conjunctions and conjunctive particles Particles ~ Auniliary suffixes The < - = - &- E group of words Numbers, counters, time, dates Nominalization: the nominalizer @ and the noun = & Reigo Interrogatives Perspective and pronouns Punctuation and script terms Glossary of grammatical terms Appendices. Hiragana chart Katakana chart "Word endings for finding the dictionary form English index Japanese index