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て-form to link sentences I have learnt to link verb sentences with verb sentences, adjectives sentences with adjective sentences, noun sentences with noun sentences. I was wondering if it possible to link noun sentences with adjective sentences, or noun sentences with verb sentences? For example, あの人は会社員で、友好的です。 (That person is an office worker and is friendly) or 山田さんは会社員で、アップルで働きます。 (Yamada is an office worker and he works at Apple) Are these sentences grammatically correct?

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Yes, those sentences look fine. Here's verb then i-adj: 彼は余りしゃべらなくて、暗い人です。 Verb Noun Noun i-adj na-adj 彼は毎日筋トレをしていて、サッカー部の部長で、イケ面で、優しくて、まるで夢みたい!! (speaker is presumably a high school girl and thus doesn't use だ at the end.) I'm sure you could think up of examples of every combination that make sense, there's basically no grammatical restriction, but some ordering may sound better or more natural than others. guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/compound Here's a page on te-form. Do yourself a huge favor and read the whole guide if you're not using it already. Also, the only dictionary you will ever need: edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?1C
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Yes, て links almost any sentences if you would like to, but it produce in most cases poor, awkward or amateurish prose, which seems that a elementary student might write.

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