Practising German Grammar

This new edition of PRACTISING GERMAN GRAMMAR provides you with varied and accessible exercises for developing an in-depth and practical awareness of German as it is spoken and written today. Whether used independently or as the ideal companion to the fifth edition of the widely acclaimed HAMMER...

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Main Author: Durrell, Martin
Other Authors: Kohl, Katrin, Loftus, Gudrun
Format: Book
Language:German
Published: London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Edition:3rd ed
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Points for the user -- 1 Nouns -- 1−9 Gender -- 10−18 Noun plurals -- 19-27 Noun declension -- 2 Case -- 1 The nominative -- 2−5 The accusative -- 6−9, 13 The genitive -- 10−13 The dative -- 14−16 Apposition -- 17−18 Measurement phrases -- 19−21 Case: general -- 3 Personal pronouns -- 1 Personal pronouns: general -- 2−4 Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns -- 5, 10 Third person pronouns: general -- 6 Third person pronoun or prepositional adverb? -- 7−11 The pronoun es -- 4 The articles -- 1-2 Definite article: general -- 3-4 Definite article or possessive? -- 5−9 Uses of the articles -- 5 Other determiners and pronouns -- 1−2, 5−6, 13 Demonstratives -- 3−4, 17 Possessives -- 5−6 Interrogatives -- 7 Prepositional adverbs -- 8-13 Relative pronouns -- 13 The uses of der/die/das -- 14 all- -- 15−17 einer/keiner, kein -- 18 German equivalents for English 'some' and 'any' -- 19 Pronouns: general -- 6 Adjectives -- 1-3 The use of the strong and weak declensions -- 4−6 Declension of adjectives -- 7 Adjectives and the noun phrase -- 8−12 Adjectives used as nouns -- 13 Cases with adjectives -- 14 Adjectives with prepositions -- 7 Adverbs -- 1−2 Adverbs of direction -- 3−4 Adverbs of place and direction -- 5 The use of adjectives as adverbs -- 6−7 Adverbs of manner, viewpoint and attitude -- 8 Comparison of adjectives and adverbs -- 1−2 Comparative and superlative -- 3 Proportion expressed with je . . . desto -- 4 Forms of the superlative -- 9 Numerals -- 1 Equivalents for 'half' -- 2 Forms and phrases with -mal or Mal -- 10 Modal particles -- 1−4 Uses of the modal particles -- 11 Expressions of time -- 1 Times of the clock -- 2 Time phrases -- 3 Adverbs of time -- 12 Verbs: conjugation -- 1-3, 7, 9 Weak and strong verbs -- 4−5 Weak, strong and irregular verbs -- 6, 8 The past and the pluperfect 
505 8 |a 10−11 haben or sein in the perfect? -- 12 The future and the passive -- 13 The infinitive and the participles -- 1-11, 13 The infinitive with zu -- 11-13 The infinitive without zu -- 14 Uses of the infinitive -- 15-17 Infinitival nouns -- 18-19 The extended participial phrase -- 20 Uses of the present and past participles -- 21-22 German equivalents of English constructions with the 'ing'-form -- 14 The uses of the tenses -- 1-4 The present tense -- 5-6 The past and the perfect -- 7-10 The future and the future perfect -- 11 The pluperfect -- 12−14 German equivalents for the English progressive tenses -- 15-17 Use of the tenses: general -- 15 The passive -- 1−6 The werden-passive -- 7-9 The werden-passive and the sein-passive -- 10 Von or durch with the passive -- 11-15 Alternative passive constructions -- 16-17 The passive: general -- 16 Mood: the imperative and subjunctive -- 1−2 The imperative -- 3 The imperative and the werden-passive -- 4 The imperative and Konjunktiv I -- 5 Konjunktiv II -- 6−11 Conditional sentences -- 12−17 Indirect speech -- 18-21 Other uses of the subjunctive -- 22-23 The subjunctive mood: general -- 17 The modal auxiliaries -- 1 Tenses and mood forms of modal verbs -- 2-3 Modal verbs in subordinate clauses -- 4 The omission of the infinitive after the modal verbs -- 5 Dürfen -- 6 Können, kennen or wissen? -- 7 Sollen -- 8 Sollen, müssen, dürfen -- 9−16 The modal auxiliaries: general -- 18 Verbs: valency -- 1-3 Valency, complements and sentence patterns -- 4−6 The impersonal subject es -- 7-9, 16 The accusative object -- 8-10 The dative object -- 11 Objects and cases -- 12-18 Prepositional objects -- 19 The valency of verbs: general -- 19 Conjunctions and subordination -- 1 Coordinating conjunctions -- 2 Conjunctions of time -- 3 Causal conjunctions -- 4 The use of indem -- 5 Conjunctions with so 
505 8 |a 6−7 Conjunctions: general -- 20 Prepositions -- 1 Uses of bis -- 2 Time phrases with prepositions -- 3-8 Prepositions and cases -- 9-12 Prepositions with similar usage -- 13 German equivalents for English 'to' -- 14 Prepositions: general -- 21 Word order -- 1-5 Clause structure and the position of the verb -- 6-10 Initial position in main clauses -- 11 The order of other elements in the sentence -- 12 The place of the pronouns -- 13-14 The order of objects -- 15 The order of elements inside and outside the verbal bracket -- 16-18 The order of adverbials -- 19-20 The position of nicht -- 21 The position of prepositional objects -- 22 Word order in multiple subordinate clauses -- 23 The placing of elements after the final portions of the verb -- 24 Word order: general -- 22 Word formation -- 1 The formation of nouns -- 2-3 The formation of adjectives -- 4-8 The formation of verbs -- 9 Word formation: general -- 23 Spelling and punctuation -- 1 The use of capitals -- 2 The use of the comma -- 3 The use of capitals, ß and commas -- Answers to the exercises -- Glossary of grammatical terms -- Acknowledgements 
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