Review by Charles E. Tuttle catalogue

This valuable reference book comprehensively explains Japanese grammar - the nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and word order. Includes an index, a glossary defining English grammatical terms, and appendices reviewing Japanese pronunciation and sound patterns. All Japanese words are romanized.

Review by Mark Barton

This is a very gentle introduction to basic Japanese grammar. It is hopelessly politically incorrect in using romaji and traditional English grammatical concepts and terminology throughout. However in fact it does quite a good job of explaining for the benefit of people who have never seriously thought about grammar before and have only the vaguest notion of what things like "nouns" and "verbs" are. Readers should begin at the excellent appendix, "A glossary of grammatical terms".