Overview
Main description
Build your German language skills by mastering pronouns and prepositions in no time at all!
Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions gives you a quick, painless way to master two essential building blocks of German language fluency. Using numerous everyday examples, it demystifies German pronouns and prepositions and provides dozens of skill-building exercises in a variety of formats, including fill-in-the-blanks, sentence rewrites, and translations.
Author comments
Ed Swick has taught German for thirty years. He is also the author of Essential German Verb Skills.
Back cover copy
Master German pronouns and prepositions quickly and easily
The only way to build your skills in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. Following the successful Practice Makes Perfect approach, this book gives you clear explanations and all the tools you need to learn German pronouns and prepositions. A valuable resource for beginning- to intermediate-level German learners, Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions enables you to:
- Successfully grasp German pronoun and preposition usage
- Review and compare different types of pronouns and prepositions using easy-to-read tables
- Build your language skills with more than 100 exercises and an answer key
With the help of many everyday examples, this book takes the mystery out of pronouns and prepositions and gets you on your way to communicating in German with confidence!
Topics covered include:
- Pronouns and gender
- Pronouns in the accusative and the dative case
- Pronouns as subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects
- Einer/Keiner and interrogatives used as pronouns
- Accusative, dative, and genitive prepositions
- Prepositional adverbs
- Prepositional contractions
