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I am currently learning basic grammar using the Tae Kim's guide to japanese.
In one of his examples he roughly translates this sentence:

> こんな **の** を本当に食べる？

as " _Do you think [he/she] will really eat this type of thing?_ "

My question is, how does the possessive **の** particle make this sentence
different from for example:

> こんなを本当に食べる？
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translation words meaning particles particle-の
Confusion with the の particle
の here is not a possessive の, it's a nominalizer, a formal noun. こんな is
adjectival and cannot by itself constitute a noun phrase.

In other words, こんな means "this type of", こんなの means "this type of thing".
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