が Subject Marker - Grammar Discussion

subject marker

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  • Subject +

[subject marker・particle]

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Hi guys,
For those of you struggling with は vs が, this video is THE best(が) there is.

Thank you and good luck!

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Even now I make mistakes on this semi-regularly. Thanks!

I don’t get why ga can be used to describe things that you are experiencing in the moment while wa can’t. Help?

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I think the idea is that when you’re experiencing something with your five senses and you want to tell someone else about it, it’s often going to be new information, and は can’t be used to introduce it.

But on the whole I don’t like this statement either because it seems it would apply to a statement like ここは寒い which sounds weird with が. It’s probably not what it’s intended to mean, but IMHO the English description (actually the other two orange lines too) is way too simplistic for this topic and it would be better to not have anything at all and make people read up on the details in a more comprehensive source.

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