のが上手(じょうず)To be good at, Proficient

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  Asher

  Basically, all sentences are made up of 主語 (words that can be a sentence topic), and 述語 (words that describe the sentence topic). Because が will always mark the 主語, が cannot (or should not) mark a verb.

  Basically 主語 and 述語 work like this

  何が・誰が = 主語
  どうする・どんなだ = 述語

  Because the の turns する into a 何が, it allows it to become a subject.

  We could/should perhaps think of a clue to go with grammar points like this.

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  Megumin

  Alright, thank you everyone for the input.

  Highly appreciated.

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  mrnoone

  @Megumin @Asher @nekoyama @FredKore
  By the way, が in Verb + がゆえ comes from classical Japanese, the が was used for some time in the past to mark an attribute of the follwing noun, just like の does today. The attributive usage was the original use of が, there was no “subject” particle in the beginning.

  You can see it in some modern set expressions like 我が社 (私の会社) = one’s company, 我が家 (私の家) - one’s house and so on.

  This usage also applied to verbs that were in 連体形 (attributive form, like @nekoyama mentioned in modern Japanese it has become the basic form of the verb, but in the past verbs had separate 終止形 (final form) to which auxilliary verbs were attached), you can see it used with expressions like