の particle as a nominalizer

Fociis said:

だれにこの本をもらったのですか。 "From whom did you receive this book?"
If の is truly being used as a verb nominalizer here what is the literal translation?

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Fociis said:

Would it be correct (and accepted) to say:
だれにこの本をもらったか？or even if の replaced か at then end of the sentence.

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Fociis said:

Can someone please explain to me how の is used as a nominalizer for verbs and when to use it? For ex：
だれにこの本をもらったのですか。 "From whom did you receive this book?"
If の is truly being used as a verb nominalizer here what is the literal translation? "Received the book, from whom did you?" (as Yoda might put it)
Would it be correct (and accepted) to say:
だれにこの本をもらったか？or even if の replaced か at then end of the sentence.

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Fociis said:

"Received the book, from whom did you?" (as Yoda might put it)

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JimmySeal said:

No. Putting 窶堋ｩ directly after a plain form verb sounds unnatural.

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It does? I thought it sounded a bit rough, maybe, but not unnatural.

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Elizabeth said:

Using の（か） as a question marker I think often refocuses the sentence to make it more like you're talking about someone else. If a translation is "what am I going to do/what should I do" it is どうするかな？どうしようかな？ while どうするの（か） is closer to what are you going to do ?
「そうするのかな」は使いません。

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