Monday, April 29, 2019

When can you use the の particle to replace a noun?


How come the sentence 白いのは、高い is ok, but the sentence 学生じゃないのは、学校に行かない is not? Wouldn't the second sentence just mean "the one who isn't a student does not go to school"? On Tae Kim's grammar guide, he says that to replace a noun with の, the sentence needs to be "about the clause and not about the noun that was replaced." I'm not really sure what that means, so can someone please explain it?




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