Unit 72 granmar nits

[jaunty gulch]

Two points I noticed on unit 72, Japanese sentence structure:

Rather, any type of copula needs to come at the end, which could be a verb, an i-adjective, or something like です or だ.

I think the word here is "predicate", not "copula", right? As I understand it, copula specifically means a word used to express attributes. There's no universal definition but usually with Japanese I hear that the only copulae are だ and です (or they are two forms of the same).

Also, later:

And this one ended with an unspoken copula (e.g. です):

But the example that follows is casual so it should be だ I think

[zealous remnant]

self-predicating adjectives can be considered to have an invisible copula / in Japanese grammar are considered to function about the same and can be in that grouping.

there's also じゃ, や, ではない, and じゃない that function has copulas. and there's です when its not being a copula after an i adjective because the adjective already is one.

i'll mention it @vocal violet if he wants to adjust the wording at all

but it is still a fair statement in the context of Japanese grammar as is.

[jaunty gulch]

Yeah that's fair, lots of things at least have copular function. But I think verbs like 食べる from the example fall outside that