GRAMMAR OVERVIEWS

Professor Ingeborg Walther

Duke University

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

·         Gender of Nouns (Tips)

·         Articles, Pronouns, Possessive Adjectives

·         Cases

·         Cases Usage

·         Cases Forms

·         Prepositions

·         Expressing time

·         Expressing location and direction

·         Location “wo?”: the prepositions “at, in, on”

·         Direction “wohin?”: the preposition "to"

·         Verbs Tenses

·         Overview of Tenses

·         Overview of Past Tenses

·         Formation of Present Tense

·         Formation of Simple Past Tense

·         Formation of Present Perfect Tense

·         Formation of Future Tenses

·         Principal Parts of Strong and Irregular Weak Verbs (List)

·         Imperative

·         Reflexive Verbs

Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive Verbs

·         Modal Verbs

·         Present and Simple Past Tense Forms of Modal Verbs

·         Tenses and Usage of Modal Verbs

·         "Semi" Modals (sehen, helfen, hören, lassen)

·         “Semi” Modals

·         The Verb “lassen”

·         Subjective Use of Modal Verbs

·         Connecting Clauses

Coordinating Conjunctions (und, aber, oder, sondern, denn)

Subordinating Conjunctions / Subordinate Clauses

·         Relative Clauses

·         Infinitive Phrases

·         Word Order

·         Adjectives

·         Attibutive Adjectives (endings)

·         Comparative and Superlative

·         Passive Voice

·         Passive Voice: Usage and Formation

·         Passive Voice: Summary of Forms

·         Subjunctive II

·         Subjunctive II: Usage and Formation

·         Subjunctive II: Summary of Forms

·         Subjunctive I

·         Verbs with fixed prepositions (List)

·         Participial Constructions

·         Present and Past Participles

·         Extended Adjective Constructions