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Basic German A Grammar and Workbook
Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook is exactly what its title promises — the core grammar of German explained unit by unit, with workbook exercises attached to every unit, in the established Grammar Workbooks format for independent learners.
Each unit takes one structure — a case, a tense, a kind of clause — explains it clearly with examples, and immediately exercises it, so explanation and practice are never separated by more than a page. The coverage is the ‘basic’ German that is anything but trivial: sentence structure, the case system, verb tenses, pronouns, prepositions, and the forms everyday accuracy depends on.
It is designed for self-study: adult learners working alone, students whose courses need a practice companion, and anyone preparing for elementary-to-intermediate examinations can use it without a teacher, because the answers and the explanations are both in the book.
Grammar workbooks occupy the most practical shelf in language learning: less grand than a complete grammar, more serious than a phrasebook, and built around the unit — one structure, one explanation, one set of exercises. This volume’s strength is its discipline. German’s essentials are divided into digestible units ordered for learning, each written in accessible language with charts where charts help and examples drawn from real usage. The exercises vary — completion, transformation, translation, sentence building — because a structure is only learned when it has been produced, not merely recognised. With an answer key, the lone learner gets the feedback loop a classroom provides, which is why books in this series are standard issue in university German courses and on self-learners’ desks alike.
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About This Book
The Grammar Workbooks series was built on a finding every teacher knows: grammar is retained when it is practised within minutes of being explained. This German volume applies that rhythm across the language’s core structures, producing a book that is half reference, half gymnasium — and wholly usable without a teacher.
What Learners Will Study
Sentence Structure and the Cases
The units on word order, verb position, and the four cases form the book’s spine: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive met in the structures that govern them, with the article and adjective endings practised until accurate by habit.
Verbs, Tenses, and Forms
Present, perfect, and simple past tenses; modal, separable, and reflexive verbs; the imperative; and the passive — each in its own unit, each with the formation rules, the common irregulars, and the exercises that make them stick.
The Supporting Structures
Pronouns, prepositions with their cases, comparisons, conjunctions, and clause building — the connective tissue of German sentences, handled with the same explain-then-exercise discipline, plus vocabulary support in context.
Key Features
The unit rhythm is the key feature: no explanation without immediate production, no production without an answer key. Second, the level discipline — ‘basic’ here means the structures through roughly B1, covered thoroughly rather than the whole language covered thinly.
Who This Book Is For
It is for elementary-to-intermediate learners of German (A1–B1 and revisers beyond), university and A-level/Goethe-examination students, adult self-learners who want structure with feedback, and teachers setting grammar homework with confidence that students can self-check.
How to Use This Book
Work a unit at a time, in order the first time through: read the explanation with a pen in hand, do every exercise in writing, mark against the key, and redo the failures a week later. Then keep the book as your first reference — when real German exposes a weak structure, its unit is your repair kit.
Related Books
The same grammar taught as a continuous staircase is Easy German Step-by-Step. The complete reference grammar is the German Grammar Book.
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