～のは～だ・～のは～の方だ: Emphatic statements using のは

Introduction

Hey! I heard you liked the は particle. So I figured I'd better give you another grammar point that uses it.

Y-you do like the は particle, right?

～のは～だ: "It's X that's Y!"

構成こうせい

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  Verb/い-adjectiveのは～だ

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  Noun/な-adjectiveなのは～だ
  Example:
  → 勝かったのは俺おれだ。
  ”I'm the one who won.”

Today's lesson is all about making so-called "emphatic" statements. This is just a fancy way of referring to statements that are crafted to emphasize a certain piece of information. Like, if we wanted to emphasize that we were the ones who baked that tasty cake, or that it was Mike who stole the XL pepperoni pie off the counter.

Now, you may remember that the が particle can be used to emphasize the subject of a sentence: