2nd Edition

German Grammar in Context

By Carol Fehringer Copyright 2014
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

German Grammar in Context presents an accessible and engaging approach to learning grammar. Each chapter opens with a real-life extract from a German newspaper, magazine, poem, book or internet source and uses this text as the starting point for explaining a particular key area of German grammar. A range of exercises follow at the end of the chapter, helping students to reinforce and test their... Read more

Contents Foreword Acknowledgements List of grammatical terms 1. Gender 2. Noun plurals 3. Case 4. Use of articles 5. Adjectives 6. Comparatives & superlatives 7. Personal pronouns & possessives 8. Demonstratives 9. Relative pronouns 10. Present tense 11. Imperative 12. Past tense 13. Perfect 14. Pluperfect 15. Future (including future perfect) 16. Conditional (including conditional perfect) 17. Subjunctive in reported speech 18. Passive 19. Separable verbs 20. Reflexive verbs 21. Infinitives (with (um) … zu and with modal verbs) 22. Negation 23. Questions 24. Prepositions 25. Conjunctions 26. Word order 27. Word formation 28. Spelling and punctuation Appendix 1: Common strong and irregular verbs Appendix 2: Article and adjective endings Appendix 3: Revision texts Appendix 4: Key to exercises Appendix 5: Key to revision texts Recommended reading Index

Biography

Carol Fehringer is Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, UK

"German Grammar in Context is popular with our students and highly suitable for use both in classroom teaching and for self-study. The range of authentic source material offers something for all interests, and the user-friendly organisation of the book allows learners of different levels to progress at a comfortable pace, thereby facilitating a sense of achievement and confidence." Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass and Silke Mentchen, University of Cambridge, UK.

This book is to be welcomed as a valuable resource for the study and revision of German Grammar in context
Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen