German problem solver

Description

"Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your German vocabulary and grammar skills together! You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: German Sentence Builders picks up from where other grammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them to make solid sentences. And like every Practice Makes Perfect title, these books feature crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of opportunities to practice, practice, practice!"--Publisher's description.  Read more... Abstract: Helps you tackle head-on all the hurdles that you find hard about learning German. This title covers those areas where you might have difficulty - areas such as der vs die vs das, capitalization and punctuation, subject-verb agreement, determiners and adverbs of degree, and phrasal verbs.  Read more... Content: Determining gender and forming plurals -- Haben, sein, and werden -- Declensions with der-words and ein-words -- Pronoun choice by gender -- Special masculine nouns -- Conjunctions and word order -- Mancher and solcher -- Comparative, superlative, and irregularities -- Modal auxiliaries and double infinitives -- Sehen, horen, lassen, helfen, and double infinitives -- Prefixes -- Imperatives -- verbs with specific prepositions -- Categories of irregular verbs -- Passive voice versus participles as adjectives -- Subjunctive mood -- Numbers and numerals -- infinitive clauses -- Relative clauses -- Writing.