A Workbook

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ISBN-10: 0340677031

Published: 27/09/1996

Extent: 264 pages

 

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Summary:
Revised and expanded, this lively and innovative workbook complements the third edition of the highly acclaimed 'Hammer's German Grammar and Usage'. Intended for use either with or without a teacher, the enlarged selection of exercises now covers all aspects of German grammar complete with answers and explanations where necessary.



'Practising German Grammar' is intended for students of German with a good basic command of communicative and oral skills now seeking to consolidate their knowledge of key grammatical structures of German. The uniquely varied selection of exercises caters for a number of different learning strategies and includes both practice of essential grammatical structures and also text-based exercises and projects by which students are encouraged to discover grammatical regularities themselves. Many are based on real-life sources such as newspapers, business literature and twentieth-century novels, and will allow students to gain an authentic sense of current usage.



All intermediate and advanced students of German will find the second edition of this best-selling workbook an invaluable aid to developing confidence and competence in grammar and usage.

• Revised and expanded workbook to accompany the new third edition of 'Hammer's German Grammar and Usage'
• Expanded selection of exercises with answers to cover all aspects of German grammar and modern usage
• Can be used on its own or with Hammer's Grammar
• Exceptionally wide range of exercise types to accommodate differing learning strategies

Table of Contents:
Preface
Points for the user
Nouns
Case
Personal pronouns
The articles
Other determiners and pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Numerals
Modal particles
Expressions of time
conjugation
The infinitive and the participles
The uses of the tenses
The passive
The modal auxiliaries
valency
Conjunctions and subordination
Prepositions
Word order
Word formation
Spelling and punctuation
Answers to exercises
Acknowledgements.

About the Author(s):
Martin Durrell is Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester.
Katrin Kohl is Fellow and Tutor in German at the University of Oxford.
Gudrun Loftus is Instructor in German at the Language Centre, University of Oxford.

Readership:
Undergraduate and A level students of German.

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