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Practising German grammar
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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. Wheth...
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''S GERMAN GRAMMAR AND USAGE, this third edition of PRACTISING GERMAN GRAMMAR provides you with the right tools to understand German successfully. Using lively, authentic texts from a wide range of original sources and offering a variety of new and updated exercises designed to stimulate even the most g
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- Creator
- Martin Durrell, Katrin Kohl and Gudrun Loftus
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Third edition
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (530 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781134636655, 1134636652, 9780203767900, 020376790X, 1444120174
- OCLC
- ocn866441019, ocn863824306, ocn897447323
- Third edition published 2011 by Hodder Education.
- English
- 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 pronouns1-2, 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 adverbs6-7 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; 10-11 haben or sein in the perfect?
- 12 The future and the passive13 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-passive7-9 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