「人は話せるようになるとすぐ いろいろなことを尋ねます」I would like this sentence to be broken into
Subject, Object, Verb... I can only distinguish a few of the particles, and I
understand (because of dictionary) that「話せる」means to talk,「尋ね」is 'to ask'
and「人は」is people, but I am confused a bit about what is fully making the
sentence. Please help..
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translation particles syntax sentence japanese-to-english
Can someone break down this sentence for me?
* **人は** : "as for humans" (noun + topic marker)
  * **話せる** : "to be able to talk; can talk" (potential form of 話す "to talk")
  * **～ようになる** : "to come to ～; to reach the point where ～" (see [this](https://jlptsensei.com/learn-japanese-grammar/%E3%82%88%E3%81%86%E3%81%AB%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8B-you-ni-naru-meaning/))
  * **と** : "if; when(ever); once" (conjunctive particle, see [this](https://jlptsensei.com/learn-japanese-grammar/%E3%81%A8-to-meaning-whenever/))
  * **すぐ** : "soon" (adverb)
  * **いろいろなことを** : "various things" (noun phrase + object marker)
  * **尋ねます** : "to ask" (ichidan verb in polite form)

All in all, the sentence literally means "As for humans, once [they] reach the
point where [they] can talk, [they] soon ask various things". You can
translate it more naturally like "As soon as a person learns to talk, they
start to ask various questions."
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