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One of the sentences I posted on Lang-8 was this:
カツ丼を食べやすいだと思います。
The correction I got was this:
カツ丼は食べやすいと思います。
I understand why they dropped the だ, that was an oversight on my part. But they also changed the を to は and that’s the part I’m confused about. I thought that を should be used when you’re “doing” a verb to a noun?
The explanation they gave for the correction in Japanese is this:
「カツ丼は食べやすい。」に「と思います。」を足した文です。「食べやすいだ」とは言いません。
But it looks like there they’re only explaining that I don’t need to add the だ, is that right?
食べやすい is an adjective. =) There’s actually a fair few constructs which attach onto verb stems and turn them into adjectives – for example, 食べやすい, 食べにくい, 食べたい, 食べそう, et cetera.
カツ丼 is the subject of the clause rather than the object of a verb, so it should take が, not を – however, since it’s also the topic of the sentence, は is replacing the が.
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