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「能力{のうりょく}のある人や努力{どりょく}した人が豊{ゆた}かになることが本当{ほんとう}の平等{びょうどう}というものだろう。」
To comprehend the reason for the double-が, you will need to analyze the sentence grammatically.
What is the grammatical subject of this sentence? It is 「能力のある人や努力した人が豊かになること」. Yes, the subject itself is a mini-sentence that is nominalized by 「こと」.
Since the subject is a nominalized ...
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【｛怒られるの｝が怖くて嘘をつくの】は、子供にありがちな行動です。
【Being afraid of｛being scolded} and (thus) telling a lie】 is a behavior that tends to be found in children.
→ Telling a lie for fear of being scolded is a behavior children tend to exhibit.
There are nested nominalized verbs, and the subject of the main clause is everything inside 【】.
怒られるの: being scolded (...
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Great question. 怒られる is the passive form of 怒る. This means it has the meaning of 'to be told off'. のが is making it into a noun form, similar to the English 'being told off'.
Hopefully you can figure out the gist of the sentence from there; if not, I can help you with the rest of the sentence.
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Basically I’m wondering if です can be nominalized.
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です is not the dictionary form.
Dictionary form for です is だ.
So, your question should be asked as:
Can だ be nominalised?
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Nominalisation (or to nominalise) litteraly means [to make a noun].
So, if to say your question in simple words, than it would turn to:
Can I make a noun from だ?
If to look at how ...
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i-adjective + である is not grammatical for the same reason i-adjective + だ is not grammatical: i-adjectives already serve as a predicate without need for a copula (or in other words, you can imagine that the meaning “is”/“to be” is embedded in the i-adjective). i-adjective + です is grammatical, but the です here is not the usual copula, it is just a polite marker ...
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