Anyway I have problems with using wa and ga, but I think I can differentiate them.

As for Tony’s number 2 sentence. I can’t help but to say, “The pan is being eaten by Tony.” since Pan is the topic marker. If we use, “Pan wa Toni-san wo tabemasu,” It’ll mean, “The pan eats Toni.” or something along the lines.

Sakura ga sukijyanakatta josei wa shinda daga manga ga sukidatta.

The girl who(that) didn’t like cherry blossoms is dead but liked manga.

I know that ga is used for questions or answering questions which we have yet to know.
I know that ga emphasizes something, like feelings, emotions, or something that hasn’t been introduced.

For (2) can it also be written as: Toni-san ga pan o tabemasu?

I just let you know that we don’t say “ga” or “wa” in daily conversations in Japan.

１．If you want to say politely
(1) “Awabi arimasuka?” or
(2) “Awabi arimasu? ”

２．If you want to make a conversation with your friends
(1) “Awabi aru?”

Anyway, “Awabi no sushi tabetai!”

In the book I am reading, it says “Awabi ga arimasu ka” is “Do you have abalone?” but Awabi is not a subject but rather the topic, shouldn’t it be “Awabi wa arimasu ka”?

Thank you.

I’m in my first year of Japanese right now, and I just wanted to understand why a couple of sentences in my textbook used “ga” in a place that I thought you would normally use “wa.”

The first sentence is: もうすぐ学校が休みになります。

The second is: 電車がもっと速くなって、とても不便になりました。

How is the meaning of these sentences different than if the textbook had used “wa” in place of “ga”?

Thank you!

あぁ、でも理沙子の友達がお酒を飲まないんだって – “ga” is not directly related to “酒を飲まない”. In fact, the ga is used for “友達”. As such, this is correct.

For sentence like below, “wa” will be used
Tomodachi ni hagaki wa kaite imasen
友達にはがきは書いていない

However, sometime “ga” can be used for negative verbs depending on the whole sentence.

例えば、
Ａさん：ただいま～、お酒をいっぱい買ってきたよ！
Ｂさん：あぁ、でも理沙子の友達がお酒を飲まないんだって。
Ａさん：本当？理沙子の友達って？誰が飲まないの？
Ｂさん：あの、赤いＴシャツを着てる人だよ。
Ａさん：えっ！！トニー！？トニーが酒を飲まないなんて有り得ない！

Could you please explain in a little more detail why we shouldn’t use 「が」 in the negative sentence? Yoroshiku onegai itasimasu!

doumo arigatou gozaimasu !

i found that very halpful ! im going to use it as kinda a base to understand wa and ga more 😀