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I have come across this sentence:

毎日同じ物を食べるのは、面白くない

And I'm unclear as to why the の particle is required here since the noun has been established using 物; is it okay to omit the の in this case or would that grammatically invalidate the sentence?

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The thing is that in this sentence, what is uninteresting is not the 物 but the fact that you eat the same thing everyday.

Thus, you can "nominalize" the verb into 食べるの.

After that, it's simply a matter of 「は」indicating the subject. You can thus parenthesize the phrase as :

「毎日同じ物を食べるの」は面白くない

Note that this is similar, albeit with a different nuance to 食べることは where こと has the same function as の.

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  • I've read another topic about when adding の after the verb it turns it into the gerund. I've understood this part however what would it mean to just have は after the verb and no の? 毎日同じ物を食べるは面白くない. What is the meaning now? I saw another answer which said you cannot put が after the verb because it must take a noun however it didn't say anything about は so I'm really curious now.
    – Nubcake
    Commented Jul 18, 2015 at 23:23

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