English Grammar for Students of German

by Zorach, Cecile

• ISBN13: 9780934034234
• ISBN10: 0934034230
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Olivia & Hill Pr

Table of Contents

To the Student	vii
Introduction	1	(3)
1. What is a Noun?	4	(2)
2. What is Meant by Gender?	6	(3)
3. What is Meant by Number?	9	(2)
4. What are Articles?	11	(4)
Definite Articles	11	(1)
Indefinite Articles	12	(3)
5. What is Meant by Case?	15	(6)
Case of English Pronouns	15	(3)
Case of German Nouns	18	(3)
6. What is a Verb?	21	(3)
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs	22	(2)
7. What is a Subject?	24	(2)
8. What are Objects?	26	(6)
Direct Object	26	(2)
Indirect Object	28	(1)
Sentences with a Direct and an Indirect Object	29	(1)
Object of a Preposition	29	(3)
9. What is a Predicate Noun?	32	(2)
10. What is the Possessive?	34	(4)
11. What is a Pronoun?	38	(2)
12. What is a Personal Pronoun?	40	(12)
Personal Pronouns as Subjects	40	(3)
Personal Pronouns as Objects	43	(5)
Personal Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions	48	(4)
13. What are the Principal Parts of a Verb?	52	(3)
14. What is an Infinitive?	55	(2)
15. What is a Verb Conjugation?	57	(5)
Verb Subjects	57	(3)
Verb Forms	60	(2)
16. What is Meant by Tense?	62	(1)
17. What is the Present Tense?	63	(2)
18. What is the Past Tense?	65	(2)
19. What are Auxiliary Verbs?	67	(4)
Use of Auxiliaries in English and German	68	(1)
Modal Auxiliaries	69	(2)
20. What is a Participle?	71	(8)
Present Participle	71	(2)
Present Participle Versus Gerund	73	(2)
Past Participle	75	(4)
21. What are the Perfect Tenses?	79	(4)
22. What is the Future Tense?	83	(3)
23. What is Meant by Mood?	86	(2)
24. What is the Imperative?	88	(2)
25. What is the Subjunctive?	90	(7)
The General Subjunctive (Subjunctive II)	92	(3)
The Würde-Construction	95	(2)
26. What is Meant by Direct and Indirect Discourse?	97	(3)
27. What is a Possessive Pronoun?	100	(2)
28. What is a Reflexive Pronoun?	102	(4)
29. What is a Reflexive Verb?	106	(2)
30. What is an Interrogative Pronoun?	108	(6)
Persons	110	(2)
1. Subject: Wer?	110	(1)
2. Object: Wen? or Wem?	110	(1)
3. Indirect Object: Wem?	111	(1)
4. Object of a Preposition: Wen? or Wem?	111	(1)
5. Possessive: Wessen?	112	(1)
Things: Was?	112	(2)
31. What is a Relative Pronoun?	114	(9)
Use of Relative Pronouns	119	(1)
Relative Clauses with Indefinite Antecedents	120	(1)
Restrictive Clauses Versus Non-Restrictive Clauses	121	(2)
32. What is an Adjective?	123	(1)
33. What is a Descriptive Adjective?	124	(4)
34. What is Meant by Comparison of Adjectives?	128	(5)
Comparative	128	(2)
Superlative	130	(3)
35. What is a Possessive Adjective?	133	(3)
36. What is an Interrogative Adjective?	136	(3)
37. What is an Adverb?	139	(2)
38. What is a Preposition?	141	(5)
Two-Way Prepositions	142	(2)
Preposition or Prefix?	144	(2)
39. What are Prefixes and Suffixes?	146	(4)
Nouns Forms with Suffixes	147	(1)
Verbs Formed with Prefixes	147	(3)
40. What is Meant by Active and Passive Voice?	150	(6)
41. What is a Conjunction?	156	(3)
Preposition or Subordinating Conjunction?	156	(3)
42. What are Sentences, Phrases, and Clauses?	159	(8)
What is a Sentence?	159	(1)
What is a Phrase?	160	(1)
What is a Clause?	161	(1)
Simple Sentences	161	(1)
Compound Sentences	162	(1)
Complex Sentences	163	(4)
Appendix--Selected Noun Gender Reference List	167	(2)
Answer Key	169	(4)
Index	173