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1. The definite article
2. The indefinite article
3. Uses of the articles
4. Demonstratives
5. Possessives
6. Other determiners
7. Personal pronouns
8. Reflexive pronouns
9. Demonstrative, possessive and indefinite pronouns
10. The noun phrase in context
11. Interrogative adverbials
12. Adverb comparison
13. Cardinal numbers
14. Ordinal numbers
15. Fractions
16. Clock times, days of the week and months
17. Modal particles
18. Adjectives, adverbs and adverbials in context

4. Adjectives, adverbs and adverbials

1. Adjective declension
2. Adjective declension: some special cases
3. Adjectives used as nouns
4. Adjectives with the dative
5. Adjectives with prepositions
6. Comparison of adjectives
7. Some uses of the comparative and superlative
8. Adverbs and adverbials
9. Time adverbials
10. Adverbs of place
11. Adverbs of direction
12. Adverbs of attitude
13. Adverbs of manner
14. Adverbs of degree

5. Prepositions

1. Prepositions with the accusative
2. Prepositions with the dative
3. Prepositions with the accusative or the dative
4. Prepositions with the genitive
5. Prepositional adverbs
6. Prepositions in context

6. Verbs: forms

1. Principal parts: weak, strong and irregular verbs
2. Tenses: general
3. Conjugation of weak and strong verbs in simple tenses
4. Separable and inseparable verbs
5. Conjugation of irregular verbs
6. Compound tenses
7. haben or sein in the perfect?
8. Forms of the passive
9. Forms of the subjunctive
10. Vowel changes with strong verbs
11. List of strong and irregular verbs
12. Verb forms in context

7. Verbs: uses

1. The tenses and their use
2. Present and future
3. Past and perfect
4. The passive with werden
5. The ‘subjectless’ passive
6. The passive with dative objects
7. von or durch with the passive
8. The passive with sein
9. Alternatives to passive constructions
10. The subjunctive: general
11. Subjunctive II: conditional sentences
12. Subjunctive I: reported speech
13. The modal auxiliary verbs
14. dürfen
15. können
16. mögen
17. müssen
18. sollen
19. wollen
20. Verb uses in context

8. Valency and cases

1. Sentence patterns
2. Reflexive verbs
3. Dative objects
4. Other uses of the dative case
5. Genitive objects
6. Other uses of the genitive case
7. Prepositional objects
8. Place complements
9. Direction complements
10. Predicate complements
11. Valency and cases in context

9. Word order

1. The ‘bracket’ construction
2. Verbs at the end of the clause
3. First position in main clauses
4. The order of words and phrases in the central section
5. The position of pronouns
6. The position of the noun subject and objects
7. The position of adverbials
8. The position of complements
9. The position of nicht
10. Placing elements after the verbal bracket
11. Word order in the context

10. Complex sentences

1. Coordination and subordination
2. Coordination
3. Subordination: noun clauses1
4. Subordination: other conjunctions
5. Subordination: relative clauses
6. Infinitive clauses
7. Infinitive clauses after prepositions
8. The infinitive without zu
9. Complex sentences in context

11. Word formation

1. The basics of word formation
2. The formation of nouns
3. Compound nouns
4. The formation of adjectives
5. Inseparable verb prefixes
6. Separable verb prefixes
7. Variable verb prefixes
8. Other ways of forming verbs
9. Word formation in context

12. Spoken and written German

1. The relationship between pronunciation and spelling
2. German spelling
3. The use of capital letters
4. One word or two?
5. -ss-and -ß-
6. Punctuation: the comma
7. Other punctuation marks
8. Register
9. Colloquial and formal pronunciation
10. Register differences in grammar
11. Register differences in vocabulary1
12. Register in context

Exercises

1. Chapter 1: Words and sentences
2. Chapter 2: Nouns
3. Chapter 3: The noun phrase: determiners and pronouns
4. Chapter 4: Adjectives, adverbs, and adverbials
5. Chapter 5: Prepositions
6. Chapter 6: Verbs: forms
7. Chapter 7: Verbs: uses
8. Chapter 8: Valency and cases
9. Chapter 9: Word order
10. Chapter 10: Complex sentences
11. Chapter 11: Word formation
12. Chapter 12: Spoken and written German

Answers to exercises
Grammar in context: translations
Index