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This study pointed out problems about Japanese adjective conjugation. To bespecific, this paper checked the problems about adjective conjugation in Japaneseschool grammar and conjugation in Japanese education, and studied how to proposeit. School grammar proposes adjective conjugation's system just as verbal conjugation's. For example, the system of adjective conjugation, having 6 conjugated forms includingimperative form which is not for adjective, does not reflect features of the adjectiveproperly. In addition, the system of adjective conjugation in Japanese educationsuggests different forms to meet the goal for Japanese education. However, therehas limits to explain all the forms of adjectives. Moreover, there has been only fewattempts to criticize the system of adjective conjugation as well, unlike the systemof verbal conjugation has been studied a lot through conventional studies. Therefore, this study pointed out a problem about the discordance between theusage and name for the conjugation in school grammar. Besides, this study alsopointed out that it is not able to explain all the conjugation by the system of theJapanese education. To settle these problems, this study suggested a conjugationsystem by predicative function and modifier's function, considering adjective'sfunctional features. This attempt is meaningful in that how adjectives work in thetext was considered, not to simply learn the pattern of adjectives.