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Title Page
Contents
Foreword
I. The Vocabulary
Pronunciation
The German Vocabulary
II. Grammar
The English Pattern
The German Pattern
Gender and Case
The Case Explained
Word Order
The Moral
III. The Articles
The Definite Article
The Indefinite Article
How the Articles are Used
IV. The Noun
Gender of Nouns: Masculines; Feminines; Neuters; Foreign Words
The Declension of the Noun
Classification of the Declension
The Weak Declension
The Strong Declensions: Class I; Class II; Class III
The Mixed Declension
Oddments: (1) nouns used only in the singular; (2) used only in the plural; (3) compound nouns with -mann; (4) foreign nouns; (5) nouns varying in gender, plural and meaning; (6) declension of proper nouns; (7) gender of compound
Formation of Nouns by Suffixes and Prefixes
V. The Adjective
Strong Declension
Weak Declension
Mixed Declension
The Adjective as a Noun
Oddments: (1) declension of adjective after indefinite numeral adjective; (2) declension with personal pronouns; (3) indeclinable adjective-nouns; (4) adjectives formed from names of towns; (5) declension of adjectives of nationality used to designate national languages
The Comparison of Adjectives
Formation of Adjectives by Suffixes
Cases Governed by Adjectives: the Dative; the Genitive
VI. The Numerals
1. Cardinals
2. Ordinals
3. Fractions
4. Multiplicatives
5. Iteratives
6. Variatives
The Time and the Date
Useful Time Words
VII. The Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns and Adjectives
Relative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns and Adjectives
Indefinite Pronouns and Adjectives of Quantity
VIII. The Verb
The Verb as a Noun
The Verb as an Adjective: Present Participle; Past Participle
The Finite Verb: Tense and Time; Concord of the Finite Verb with its Subject; Mood; Voice; Reflexive Verbs
IX. Conjugation of the Verb
Weak Verbs, Simple Tenses
The Imperative
Strong Verbs, Simple Tenses
Classes of Strong Verbs
The Compound Tenses
Haben or Sein?
The Auxillary Verbs, haben, sein, werden
Conjugation of the Compound Tenses
The Negative and Interrogative
X. The Tenses
The Present
The Perfect
The Imperfect
The Future and the Future Perfect
The Pluperfect
XI. The Subjunctive Mood
The Subjective in English, American-English, German
The Subjunctive in Principal Clauses
The Subjunctive in Subordinate Clauses: I. Conditional clauses; II. Unreal comparisons; III. After wishes, requests, orders, etc.; IV. After negatives or questions; V. Indirect Speech
XII. Refelexive, Impersonal, Separable, Inseparable and Variable Verbs
XIII. The Passive Voice
XIV. The Auxillaries of Mood
Conjugation of dürfen, könen, mögen, müssen, sollen, wollen, wissen
Each verb treated separately with examples
Fühlen, heissen, helfen, hören, lassen, lehren, lernen, machen, sehen; use of the Infinitive as Past Participle
XV. Cases Goverened by Verbs
Verbs Governing Two Accusatives
Verbs Governing the Dative
Verbs Governing the Genitive
XVI. Formation of Verbs
XVII. The Adverb
Comparison of the Adverbs
“Rest at” and “Motion towards”
Adverbs of Place, Time, Degree
Affirmative and Negative Adverbs
XVIII. The Conjunction
Co-ordinating Conjunctions
The Pure Co-ordinating Conjunctions
Adverbial Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions
XIX. The Preposition
Prepositions Governing the Genitive
Prepositions Governing the Dative
Prepositions Governing the Accusative
Prepositions Governing the Accusative or Dative
XX. The Interjection
XXI. Word Order
Normal Order
Inverted Order
Order in Questions, Commands, Exclamations
The Finite Verb and its Close Dependents
The Finite Verb in Subordinate Clauses
Order of Objects and Adverbs: Relative Order of Nouns and Pronouns; Adverbs; Objects and Adverbs; Place of the Negative
Appendix
A. List of German Strong and Irregular Verbs
B. The German Alphabet
German Pronunciation
C. Capital Letters
Division of Syllables
Length of Vowels
D. Exercises
Key