みんなの日本語って教科書**が**だれでも知っているね。it should be を not が right?

Question

みんなの日本語って教科書がだれでも知っているね。it should be を not が right? 知っている is transitive verb. same phenomenon in トムさん、さっき山田さんって人が探してたよ。

Answer 1

If you really copied this sentence correctly, this が is intended to be an exhaustive-listing が. That is, the speaker introduced みんなの日本語 as the only textbook everyone knows.

みんなの日本語って教科書がだれでも知っているね。
The textbook called Minna-no Nihongo, it's the (only) one everyone knows.

The sentence above is not incorrect, but it would be more natural if a relative clause were used:

みんなの日本語って教科書がだれでも知っているものだね。
The textbook called Minna-no Nihongo is the one everyone knows.

If this implication of ("the only") is unnecessary (which usually is), you can use は or を instead (は is usually preferred).

みんなの日本語って教科書はだれでも知っているね。
みんなの日本語って教科書をだれでも知っているね。
Everyone knows a textbook called Minna-no Nihongo. / One textbook everyone knows is Minna-no Nihongo.

See Also:

• What's the difference between wa (は) and ga (が)?

  Exhaustive-listing works similar to contrastive は, implying contrast to the rest of the universe of discourse. A:「だれが日本語を知っていますか？」 B:「ジョンが日本語できます」 できる is a non-action verb, so this is exhaustive-listing. Assume that we are talking about the three new students: Jon, Bill and Tom. If B knows that Jon and Tom can both speak Japanese, B just lied. If B knows Jon can speak Japanese, but doesn't know about the others, the contrastive は is appropriate to use instead of が.

• Is the object uniquely determined when using は in the following sentences?

Answer 2

I am not following this sentence.

The は is attached to みんなの日本語(は)...

Is this sentence from somewhere? Perhaps the sentence may be re-worded as, 皆の日本語って、誰でも知っているような、教科書からきた感じだ。

I suppose the lesson here is that って　after the subject acts as は