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Where can I search grammar points?

#1
What is your preferred grammar source / guide?
I am trying to understand the grammar of the following sentence 「通らなくてはならない道。」

EDIT: Fixed a typo on my sentence. The sentence is the title of the third episode from a J-Drama called Bambino.
Edited: 2012-01-12, 10:24 pm
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#2
http://www.tatoeba.org
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#3
Thanks, I was looking for something more like a grammar resource with explanations and examples for specifics points, in this case something like らなくて maybe, I have no idea how to break the sentence.
Edited: 2012-01-12, 9:50 pm
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#4
It looks like an error.
らんくて is the て form negative ending of a verb, but I'm not aware of 道 forming such a verb.
Maybe it's an error for 満ちる which ought properly be 満ちなくて or something, can't tell without any context.

(Oh, the answer below mine is a -much- better guess, I like it.)
Edited: 2012-01-12, 10:02 pm
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#5
It couldn't be 通らなくてならない道, could it? I can only think it must be a typo of some kind...
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#6
I tried googling it and nowt came up...
Tae Kim has a good grammar database but I prefer the dictionaries of Japanese grammar series by Makino and Tsutsui
Edited: 2012-01-12, 10:06 pm
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#7
Community based, but check out jgram.org
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#8
The second hit on google for なくてはならない contains the following:

なくてはならない 無くてはならない

《人が主語》 cannot do without something
《物が主語》 be indispensable 《to》 be necessary 《to, for》.
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#9
http://www.jgram.org is one of the best japanese grammar sites out there.
The grammar points are organized by JLPT level.
Edited: 2012-01-13, 3:15 am
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#10
Dictionaries of Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Grammar
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#11
However, none of these resources will help you parse things you don't know. That's one of the reasons it's so hard to skip a structured introduction to the grammar. Unless someone explains it to you or you see it beforehand in a book, you're never going to be able to figure out that 通らなくてはならない道 is 通る in negative -te form plus ならない, which is a special grammar point, modifying 道.
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