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Please help. I found this question on the N5 practice exam:

> ヤン 「私はこの本を買います。アンナさんはどんな本がいいですか。」  
>  アンナ 「 私はもうすこし ( _ _ ☆ _) がいいです。」
>
> A. 本  
>  B. かんたんな  
>  C. が  
>  D. 日本語

Please explain why 日本語がかんたんな本が is the structure... why not もう少しが日本語かんたんな本?
What is the rule followed? Why is there two が?

Thank you.
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Sentence Structure JLPT question 「日本語がかんたんな本」
「日本語がかんたんな本」 is a noun phrase where 「日本語がかんたんな」 is a relative clause modifying
「本」. Its non-relative version would be:

> (その)本は、日本語がかんたんです。  
>  _lit._ As for the book, Japanese is simple.  
>  → The book is written in simple Japanese.

「もう少し」("a little more") is an adverb that modifies the na-adjective
「かんたんな」("simple").

You can parse your example this way:

> ［（もう少し）日本語がかんたんな］本がいいです。  
>  _lit._ "I'd like / prefer a book [whose Japanese is (a little) simple(r)]"  
>  → I'd like / prefer a book with a little simpler Japanese / a book written
> in a little simpler Japanese

You can rephrase it as 「もう少し日本語 **の** かんたんな本」. (For more on this, you could
refer to [this thread](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/12829/9831).)

Some example phrases using this pattern:

> 「[髪]{かみ}がきれいな人」（「髪のきれいな人」） "a person with beautiful hair"  
>  「[鼻]{はな}が[長]{なが}い[動物]{どうぶつ}」（「鼻の長い動物」） "an animal with a long trunk"
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日本語がかんたんな本がいいです。  
There are two が because there are two sentences.

First sentence:  
本がいいです。  
A book is good.

Second sentence:  
日本語がかんたんな本  
A book which has simple Japanese.
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