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〜の〜
の links 学校 to バス — “that is the school('s) bus.”
Tested at JLPT N5 — 10 practice questions below.
Practice 〜の〜 →の-chains nest from broad to narrow: 東京の modifies 会社, and 会社の modifies 人. Read it as [東京の [会社の [人]]] — a person of a company in Tokyo. Swapping the two の-phrases reverses the meaning by attaching Tokyo to the person instead of the company.
これは私＿＿＿かさです。
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これは ___ 。
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父は会社＿＿＿人です。
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