I’m looking forward to tomorrow, but I’m also a bit scared.
Furigana
ashitawa, tanoshimidakeredo, sukoshikowai
Kanji
明日は、楽しみだけれど、少し怖い
Your Sentence
Correct Sentence
あしたは、たのしみけれど、すこしこわい
あしたは、たのしみだけれど、すこしこわい
Point
ナ-adjectives in Japanese need だ (the plain form of the copula “to be”) when they are used before けれど (although, but) in informal speech. This is because けれど is a conjunction that requires a preceding clause to be in a conclusive form, which for nouns and ナ-adjectives, involves the copula だ.
In the student’s sentence, たのしみ is treated like a ナ-adjective, reflecting something that is anticipated or looked forward to. The absence of だ before けれど makes the sentence grammatically incorrect because it doesn’t properly link the ナ-adjective to the conjunction.
The corrected sentence あしたは、たのしみだけれど、すこしこわい thus correctly uses だ to connect たのしみ with けれど, following the grammatical rule for ナ-adjectives and nouns before a conjunction.
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