Sentence Composition and Text Grammar
Sentence composition and text grammar questions test word ordering, blank selection, reference, cohesion, sentence-to-sentence flow, tense consistency, and choosing the form that fits the surrounding text.
How to study for JLPT N4
Use the JLPT N4 official level description as the map: build basic Japanese reading with familiar daily topics, vocabulary and kanji, grammar forms, short passages, and slow daily-life listening.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Sentence Composition and Text Grammar questions reward the answer that follows the official source, the professional role, and the stated facts.
Exam cue: Identify the candidate role, client or public risk, source rule, calculation, or process step being tested.
Concept 2
The strongest answer identifies the rule, safety concern, ethical duty, calculation, client factor, or process step before acting.
Exam cue: Check whether the fact pattern is using a national standard, jurisdiction rule, handbook policy, or scenario-specific instruction.
Concept 3
Eliminate answers that ignore requirements, skip documentation, overreach the role, or treat convenience as the standard.
Exam cue: Choose the compliant and professionally scoped answer before the convenient or familiar answer.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating related standards as interchangeable without checking the source.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Skipping screening, documentation, authorization, sanitation, recordkeeping, or other required procedure.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Choosing an answer that protects convenience instead of client safety, public protection, or the stated professional duty.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Memory anchors
Word Order
Sentence composition requires arranging words so particles, modifiers, and predicate form work together.
Blank Fit
A blank answer must fit grammar before and after the blank, not just local vocabulary.
Reference
Reference words point back to the correct person, object, place, or idea.
Cohesion
Cohesion means sentences connect through topic, time, contrast, cause, and repeated information.
Tense Consistency
Tense and aspect must match the event order in the sentence or passage.
Politeness
Politeness level should remain consistent unless the context clearly shifts.
Text Flow
Text-flow questions ask which phrase best connects one idea to the next.
Form Fit
The correct form must satisfy particle pattern, tense, polarity, and meaning together.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
ことばを並べて、正しい文を選んでください。 ［来月］［京都に住んでいる］［叔母を］［訪ねます］
ことばを並べて、正しい文を選んでください。 ［駅で］［買った］［新聞を］［電車の中で］［読みました］
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