German Grammar: Reviewed and Retold

Ulf Schütze is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Victoria. He has taught German language courses for over twenty-five years at five universities in Europe, North America, and Oceania. His research has been widely published in the areas of psycholinguistics, computer assisted language learning, as well as on the relationship between language and culture. Lisa Süßenbach has a master’s degree in applied linguistics and is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary. She has taught German at the University of Victoria, St. Mary’s University, and the University of Calgary since 2013. Her research focus, as well as her dissertation project, is on second language pronunciation attainment and the development of teaching materials for computer-assisted pronunciation training.

• Table of ContentsThe concept of this GrammarAcknowledgements Pronouns Die rote Karte The many articles Siegfried und der Drache Genitive case Die schwarzen Jäger Adjectives Schiller und Goethe Asking questions Himmelfahrt Reflexive verbs Walpurgisnacht Modal verbs Schuberts Schüchternheit "möchten" and "mögen" Bettina und Beethovens Geheimnis Separable prefix verbs Im Strandkorb Two-way prepositions Der blaue Reiter Commands Störtebeker ärgert die Hanse Infinitive with "zu" Der Weihnachtsbaum The verb "werden" Der blaue Engel Passive voice Der Auftritt Udos Simple past Hänsel und Gretel Subjunctive Honeckers Theaterbesuch Present and past perfect Die Deutsche Bahn Conjunctions (for long sentences) Angie im Fitnesscenter Conjunctions to begin a sentence with Helmut Schmidts Zigarette Relative clauses Im Bürgerbüro Appendix I: Prepositions usage "für"and "zu"Appendix II: Verb conjugationAppendix III: Answer key