Synopses & Reviews
Master German pronouns and prepositions quickly and easily The only way to build your skills in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. Following the successful Practice Makes Perfect approach, this book gives you clear explanations and all the tools you need to learn German pronouns and prepositions. A valuable resource for beginning- to intermediate-level German learners, Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions enables you to:
- Successfully grasp German pronoun and preposition usage
- Review and compare different types of pronouns and prepositions using easy-to-read tables
- Build your language skills with more than 100 exercises and an answer key
With the help of many everyday examples, this book takes the mystery out of pronouns and prepositions and gets you on your way to communicating in German with confidence!
Topics covered include:
- Pronouns and gender
- Pronouns in the accusative and the dative case
- Pronouns as subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects
- Einer/Keiner and interrogatives used as pronouns
- Accusative, dative, and genitive prepositions
- Prepositional adverbs
- Prepositional contractions
Synopsis
Build your German language skills by mastering pronouns and prepositions in no time at all!Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions gives you a quick, painless way to master two essential building blocks of German language fluency. Using numerous everyday examples, it demystifies German pronouns and prepositions and provides dozens of skill-building exercises in a variety of formats, including fill-in-the-blanks, sentence rewrites, and translations.
Synopsis
Build your German language skills by mastering pronouns and prepositions in no time at all!
Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions gives you a quick, painless way to master two essential building blocks of German language fluency. Using numerous everyday examples, it demystifies German pronouns and prepositions and provides dozens of skill-building exercises in a variety of formats, including fill-in-the-blanks, sentence rewrites, and translations.
About the Author
Ed Swick has taught German for thirty years. He is also the author of Essential German Verb Skills.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART I: PRONOUNS Unit 1 Pronouns in the Nominative Case
Unit 2 Pronouns and Gender Unit 3 Pronouns in the Accusative Case
Unit 4 Pronouns in the Dative Case Unit 5 Pronouns in Prepositional Phrases
Unit 6 Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns in the Same Sentence Unit 7 Possessive Pronouns
Unit 8 Einer/ Keiner and Interrogatives Used as Pronouns Unit 9 Determiners Used as Pronouns
Unit 10 The Pronoun man Unit 11 Relative Pronouns
Unit 12 Reflexive Pronouns Unit 13 Reciprocal Pronouns
PART II: PREPOSITIONS Unit 14 Accusative Prepositions
Unit 15 Dative Prepositions Unit 16 Accusative - Dative Prepositions
Unit 17 Genitive Prepositions Unit 18 Prepositional Adverbs
Unit 19 Verbs with Prepostional Objects Unit 20 Adjectives with aPrepeositional Object
Unit 21 Prepostions as Prefixes Unit 22 Prepositonal Cntractions
APPENDIXES A The Verb Get in German
B Prepositions and their required cases C Verbs that requires specific prepositions
Answer Key