Practising German grammar : workbook

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Points for the user 1 Nouns 1-9 Gender 10-17 Noun plurals 18–24 Noun declension 2 Case 1 The nominative 2−4 The accusative 5 Time, distance and measurement phrases 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 2−5 Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns 6, 11 Third person pronouns: general 7 Third person pronoun or prepositional adverb? 8−12 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, 15 Demonstratives 3−4, 19 Possessives 5−6 Interrogatives 7 Prepositional adverbs 8–15 Relative pronouns 15 The uses of der/die/das 16 all 17−19 einer/keiner, kein 20 German equivalents for English ‘some’ and ‘any’ 6 Adjectives 1–3 The use of the strong and weak declensions 4−5 Adjective declension 6 Adjectives and the noun phrase 7−10 Adjectives used as nouns 9 Weak masculine nouns 11 Names of languages 12 Cases with adjectives 13–14 Adjectives with prepositions 14 Adjectives: general 15–18 Comparative and superlative 7 Adverbs 1−2 Adverbs of direction 3−4 Adverbs of place and direction 5 Adverbs of time 6 The use of adjectives as adverbs 7−8 Adverbs of manner, viewpoint and attitude 8 Numerals 1 Equivalents for ‘half’ 2 Forms and phrases with -mal or Mal 3 Times of the clock 9 Modal particles 1−4 Uses of the modal particles 10 Verbs: conjugation 1–3, 7, 9 Weak and strong verbs 4−5 Weak, strong and irregular verbs 6, 8 The past and the pluperfect 7, 10−11 haben or sein in the perfect? 12 The future and the passive 11 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 Infinitives used as 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 12 The tenses 1–4 The present tense 1–2, 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 15–16 Use of the tenses: general 13 The passive 1−7 The werden-passive 8–10 The werden-passive and the sein-passive 11 Von, durch and mit with the passive 12–15 Alternative passive constructions 16–17 The passive: general 14 Mood: the imperative and the 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 15 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 9−17 The modal auxiliaries: general 16 Verbs: valency 1–2, 17 Valency, complements and sentence patterns 3−5 Impersonal es 6 Transitive and intransitive verbs 6–8, 14 The accusative object 7–9 The dative object 10 Objects and cases: general 11–16 Prepositional objects 17–18 The valency of verbs: general 17 Conjunctions and subordination 1 Coordinating conjunctions 2 Conjunctions of time 3 Causal conjunctions 4 The use of indem 5 Conjunctions with so- 6−8 Conjunctions: general 18 Prepositions 1 Uses of bis 2–3 Time phrases with and without prepositions 4–9 Prepositions and cases 10–13 Prepositions with similar usage 14 German equivalents for English ‘to’ 15 Prepositions: general 19 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 20 Word formation 1 The formation of nouns 2–3 The formation of adjectives 4–8 The formation of verbs 9 Word formation: general 21 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