Practising German Grammar (Practising Grammar Workbooks), Fourth Edition

Practising German Grammar (Practising Grammar Workbooks), Fourth Edition by Martin Durrell, Katrin Kohl, Gudrun Loftus

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 new sixth edition of the widely acclaimed Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage, this fourth edition of Practising German Grammar gives you the right tools to achieve high-level writing competence and comprehension of German.

Using lively, authentic texts from a wide range of original sources and offering a variety of new and updated exercises designed to stimulate and to give confidence, Practising German Grammar will help you to master the complexities of the German language.

Created especially for the new edition, a companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/durrell offers a wide range of exercises and quizzes on all the main areas of German, suitable for self-study and to accompany instructed grammar courses.

Practising German Grammar (Practising Grammar Workbooks) - 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.

Readership:

Undergraduate students of German. A-level students of German, adult self-learners.

Practising German Grammar (Practising Grammar Workbooks) - About the Author(s):

Martin Durrell is Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester.

Katrin Kohl is Professor of German Literature at Jesus College, University of Oxford.

Claudia Kaiser is a Senior Language Instructor at the University of Oxford.

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