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“mir” or “für mich” when to use the Dative or an Accusative Prepositional Phrase
The other day I was giving one of my German lessons on the run… literally running with my students. The advantages of combining language training and physical exercise are huge. Students combine… more →
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"mir" or "für mich" when to use the Dative or an Accusative Prepositional Phrase
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wrote 1 month ago: The other day I was giving one of my German lessons on the run… literally running with my stud … more →
Semicolons
wrote 2 months ago: You could argue that looking to Evelyn Waugh for instruction on using semicolons is somewhat like re … more →
The Appositive Phrase
wrote 2 months ago: Good for articles, book and film reviews, the appositive phrase is a short description in parentheti … more →
The Loquacious List
wrote 2 months ago: “a salami – make that three salamis, some cheese… a kilo should do it, and… … more →
Explaining your actions in German — using um ... zu and damit clauses
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wrote 2 months ago: A post that gets a great deal of attention is the one about how zu is not always used as an preposit … more →
Parenthesis: Dash vs. Comma
wrote 3 months ago: Digression is one of the joys of conversation, and one of the joys of writing. One of the vices of w … more →
Describing Feelings and Sensations with Noun Phrases
wrote 3 months ago: A lot of the action in Ethan Frome isn’t really action at all, at least not in the Vin Diesel sense. … more →
Nominalisation
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wrote 3 months ago: ‘A tedious soap of little artistic value’? To nominalise means to form a noun from a … more →
Short Sentences for Effect
wrote 4 months ago: I remember a lesson at infant’s school, as it was then called, when I was – oooh – six years old, wh … more →
However
wrote 4 months ago: There are a lot of errors out there with the use of the word however. Not the however that is part o … more →
Complex Sentences: a Primer
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wrote 4 months ago: I am about to open a box of grammatical terminology. We’re in a smoky backroom somewhere; we’d arran … more →
Can You Start a Sentence with 'And', 'But' or 'So'?
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wrote 4 months ago: Yes, you can, but you should know what you’re doing when you do. You should know that these words ar … more →
FANBOYS: For And Nor But Or Yet So
wrote 4 months ago: Following our look at compound sentences, here’s a list of those coordinating conjunctions in full. … more →
Simple Sentences and Compound Sentences: a Primer
wrote 4 months ago: When I was at school, they didn’t teach us terms like ‘simple sentence’ and ‘compound sentence’, In … more →
Expressing your New Year's Resolutions in German — Future Tense with Modals
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wrote 4 months ago: Today is New Year’s Eve (Silvester) and everyone is getting ready for the big party (die Party) toni … more →
When to use the German Future Tense
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wrote 5 months ago: With the holidays (die Weihnachtszeit) just around the bend many of us are busy making plans of what … more →
Well that's just perfect! — Using das Perfekt in German
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wrote 6 months ago: A few weeks ago one of our Facebook followers asked me to write about using the perfect (das Perfekt … more →
1. Create a sense of fear or foreboding.
wrote 8 months ago: The first assignment of the year… here we go: Create a sense of fear or foreboding. Uses a per … more →
Being polite and dreaming in German — Konjunktiv II
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wrote 10 months ago: Learning a second language is hard, especially for adults. Why? Because it’s like you’re a child aga … more →
