Thank you for the so useful site you have. I'm studying by my self and I have
found answer to a lot of questions I had. I'm using Nihongo somatome to try N3
and there is a sentence with の that I don't catch very well:
私は少し苦みのあるコーヒーが好きです。 In fact, is a sentence you have to sort properly, and my
answer was: 私は少し苦みあるコーヒーのが好きです。 Why after の there is ある？I thought that always
it would follow a particle... Thank you in advance!

Sandra
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Nominalizer の use
Your question isn't entirely clear to me, but I'll try to break down the
sentence for you:

> 私は［［少し苦みのある］コーヒー］が好きです。  
>  I-TOP [[a little bitterness-OBJ have] coffee]-OBJ like-COP.  
>  'I like coffee which has a little bitterness.' (Literal)  
>  'I like slightly bitter coffee.'

The の in 苦みのある is actually a が which has undergone GA-NO conversion, which is
possible since it's a relative clause.

There is no need for a の after ある because verbs can directly modify nouns.

There is no need for a の before が because ［少し苦みのある］コーヒー is a noun already.
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