Nominalization の
“Speak what you think today in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this chapter, you’re going to learn a concept that might be a little bit difficult, but once you understand it you’ll find it’s actually quite simple.
Really, it’s just a particle you already know (の) being used in a slightly different way. So far, so good?
The actual use of this version of の may take a little mind wrapping to wrap your mind around it, but overall it should be fairly simple as well. Let’s start by looking at the “big picture.”