MS ACCESS SQL issue with combine LEFT JOINS and INNER JOINS - sql

Question

MS Access has been just killing me when It comes to writing my own SQL queries and I hate it's GUI query tool. I gave up trying to combine LEFT JOINS and INNER JOINS now I'm doing all inner join's and i'm still getting murdered. Can someone link to me to a comprehensible MS Access SQL guide and/ or tell me what I am doing wrong here. I've tried putting my code in parenthesis, bracketing my fields. I'm at my wits end.
SELECT answers.*
FROM (((answers
INNER JOIN caseInfo
ON answers.[ABAWDNum] = caseinfo.[ABAWDNum])
INNER JOIN Questions)
ON answers.[questionID] = questions.[questionID])
INNER JOIN responseCodes
ON answers.[responseIDCode] = responseCodes.[responsecode]
I'm not sure if my picture of the error is coming up but it says Sytnax error in FROM clause and it has the parenthesis right after the Questions table is mentioned
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EDIT: Database relationships:
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Answer 1

Access INNER JOIN can only work on two data sets at once, so if you want to join more than two tables, you have to nest the INNER JOINS using brackets, as described here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/office-2007/bb208854(v=office.12)
From that page it says the syntax to do this is...
SELECT fields FROM table1 INNER JOIN (table2 INNER JOIN [( ]table3 [INNER JOIN [( ]tablex [INNER JOIN …)] ON table3.field3compoprtablex.fieldx)] ON table2.field2compoprtable3.field3) ON table1.field1compoprtable2.field2;

Answer 2

I believe this will give you all fields from the table answers that meet your join conditions.
SELECT answers.*
FROM answers
INNER JOIN caseInfo
ON answers.[ABAWDNum] = caseinfo.[ABAWDNum]
INNER JOIN Questions
ON answers.[questionID] = questions.[questionID]
INNER JOIN responseCodes
ON answers.[responseIDCode] = responseCodes.[responsecode]

Answer 3

Just to humor Access I used the GUI/Design mode to build a query.
Here's the query I got that ran. From a table with 674 records, it only returned 6 answers, but that is a separate problem that I have to deal with. At least this thing runs.
But I have a feeling once I start asking for left joins I'm in trouble. <_< F* access.
SELECT answers.*
FROM (Questions
INNER JOIN (CaseInfo
INNER JOIN answers ON CaseInfo.ABAWDNum = answers.ABAWDNum)
ON Questions.questionID = answers.questionID)
INNER JOIN responseCodes ON (Questions.questionID = responseCodes.questionCode)
AND (answers.responseIDCode = responseCodes.responseCode);
EDIT:
I used the GUI/Designer again to try to make a query that was closer to what I needed, which is all of the answers in the answers table plus just a few things from the question table, caseinfo table, and responsecode tables , and this is what I got
SELECT
CaseInfo.ABAWDNum, CaseInfo.Admin, CaseInfo.Unit,
CaseInfo.[ASV-DRV Completed By], CaseInfo.reviewerID, CaseInfo.[Recieved Date],
CaseInfo.[Date Reviewed],
Questions.Question,
answers.responseIDCode, responseCodes.responseDescription, answers.comments
FROM
CaseInfo
RIGHT JOIN
((Questions
RIGHT JOIN
answers ON Questions.questionID = answers.questionID)
LEFT JOIN
responseCodes ON answers.responseIDCode = responseCodes.responseCode)
ON CaseInfo.ABAWDNum = answers.ABAWDNum;
This is really insane. I'm going to have to study this really hard. It looks like access is very particular on how it wants it's joins, but this seems to give me the correct results. 674 records returned.