の(は) - Grammar Discussion

I’ve read the discussion here.

Is のが being reserved as a quiz answer for some other lesson’s nuance?

  • This grammar point is labeled のは・のが. I expected either answers or alternate answers using のが.
  • のが is talked about and has a couple examples given, but it seems like it’s going to be absent in the quizzes. I tested のが as an answer during the first two quizzes and with two manually created ghosts, and Bunpro nudged me away to のは without explaining why each time. It didn’t mark のが wrong.

On Bunpro specifically, should I only use Verb + のが for things like emotive statements and 下手/上手?

  • Aside from the adjective nominalization form that allows のが usage, (Adjective) + のは, I only see these のが grammar points waiting: のがすき, のがへた, and のがじょうず. The のが examples given would fit exclusively under のがすき if it included のがきらい:

    私はバスに乗るのが嫌いです。

    彼は走るのが好き。

I think the phrase “the fact that” would be a good analogy. Consider the sentence “I couldn’t come to the party last night, because of ‘the fact that’ I was studying for my final.” (I realize this is still kinda clunky phrasing in English, but hopefully the function/meaning is more clear). I like to think of it as “the fact that” sort of packages up the clause “I was studying for my final” into it’s own little self-contained noun.