Four decades after the first forecasts that Japan’s population decline was inevitable, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is drawing a demographic red line with a target to halt the slide at 100 million people by 2060, a 20% drop from current levels.
Data source: Japan Today
Q：次の動詞の Ｓ「Ｖ」Ｏ は何ですか？
[was inevitable]
[is drawing]
[to halt]
A:
population decline [was inevitable]
inevitable は、形容詞ですね。
population decline [was] inevitablePrime Minister (Shinzo Abe) [is drawing] a (demographic) red line
OK!red line (with a target) [to halt] the slide
これは、主語は
Prime Minister [to halt] the slide
が良いでしょうね。
Q：「前」＋Ｏ のメインの名詞は何ですか？説明しているのは何ですか？
[after] the (first) forecasts
[with] a target
[at] 100 million people
[by] 2060
[from] current levels
A:
Four decades ← [after] the (first) forecasts
OK!red line ← [with] a target
OK!to halt the slide ← [at] 100 million people
OK!at 100 million people ← [by] 2060
OK!a 20% drop ← [from] current levels.
OK!
Q：次の準動詞は名詞、形容詞、副詞？説明しているのは何ですか？
A:
[to halt]・・・形容詞
a target ← [to halt]
OK!
Ｑ：この「that」は関係詞、同格、名詞を作る、のどれですか？
Ｑ：この関係詞の先行詞は何ですか？関係節で抜けているＳかＯはどこですか？
Four decades after the first forecasts that Japan’s population decline was inevitable
A:
That 関係詞（形容詞）
説明しているもの
Four decades after the first forecasts ← Japan’s population decline was inevitable
抜けているもの
名詞なのですが・・・・これは、同格の that ですね。
ですので、抜けはありませんね。
forecasts ← Japan’s population decline was inevitable
Q：説明関係を意識して文を読みます。
(Four decades
after the first forecasts
that Japan’s population decline [was] inevitable,)Prime Minister (Shinzo Abe) [is drawing] (a demographic red) line
(with a target
to halt the slide
(at 100 million people by 2060,)
(a 20% drop from current levels).