Lesson 1B Grammar Exercise Answers

I. Adjectival Conjugations

 1. It's expensive/interesting.     
	  1. Takai desu/omosiroi desu.

 2. Is it new/big?     
	  2. Atarasii desu ka/ookii desu ka.     

 3. It's very old/small, isn't it? 
	  3. Totemo hurui desu ne/totemo tiisai desu ne.

 4. A: Is it interesting?     
    B: Yes, it's very interesting (I assure you) 
	  4. A: Omosiroi desu ka.     
	     B: Ee, totemo omosiroi desu yo.

 5. It's not expensive/big/good.
	  5. Takakunai desu/ookikunai desu/yokunai desu.

 6. It was cheap/small.
	  6. Yasukatta desu/tiisakatta desu.

 7. It was good/boring, wasn't it?
	  7. Yokatta desu ne/tumaranakatta desu ne.

 8. It wasn't very  big/good.
	  8. Amari ookikunakatta desu/amari yokunakatta desu.

 9. A: Was it interesting?     
    B: No, it wasn't very interesting.
	  9. A: Omosirokatta desu ka.     
    B: Iie, amari omosirokunakatta desu.

II Sentence-particles

 10. A: It's not interesting, is it?     
     B: You're right.  It's boring, isn't it!! 
	  10. A: Omosirokunai desu nee.
 	      B: Ee, tumaranai desu nee.

 11. A: Isn't it possible/Can't you do it?     
     B: It is not possible, is it (as I think about it). 
	 11. A: Dekimasen ka.
	     B: Dekimasen nee.