This paper aims to examine how the omission of the case frame affects learners’ understanding in giving-and-receiving expressions. The effects of the omission of the case frame were examined by investigating whether intermediate and advanced Chinese learners of Japanese could correctly recognize the agents of the sentences with and without case frame. The findings show that if the complexity of sentence structure and the order of case particles are different, the omission of case frame will have different effects on the learners’ understanding.
