[lit-ideas] Re: Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:36:32 -0400
Here you go, and I'll send you the answers to those pages in the AB as soon as
I eat something.
bbiab,
erin
Fill in Blanks:
Watch case
Watch tense
Watch gender
Watch plurals
Conjugations:
Watch dürfen nicht versus müssen nicht
Watch imperative forms
Specifically watch pronouns and pronoun endings
Adjective Endings:
Watch case
Watch gender
Watch plurals
Watch specifically genitive
Watch what words the adjectives refer to - be careful
Beide + Alle
Mehrere + Wenige + Andere + Einige
Es gibt + acc.
Adverbs do not take endings
Places + er
Word order:
Watch word order in dependent clause
Watch Time Reason Manner Place
Watch place of the direct object
Negation:
Watch for position of nicht
Watch for specific negations (mehr Lust versus keine Lust mehr)
Watch for nicht versus kein(e)
Watch for adjective endings once negated
Reflexive Verbs:
Watch for them
Watch for dative versus accusative
Dative (vorstellen, überlegen, leisten)
Dative (indirect object, object of a dative verb, object of a dative
preposition)
Prepositions:
Watch Da+compounds
Watch Zu+infinitives
Watch for amalgamated prepositions + article (im)
Watch for double prepositions (bei versus über)
Double meaning of ausgehen von + d (to act on the assumption that)
Look at the case of what follows for determining either dative or accusative
prep + verb
Relative Pronouns:
Reverse sentences to double check
Watch specifically for genitive
Watch for case
Watch for plurals
Watch for Wo-compounds - people versus things (Wovor haben sie, Vor wem haben
sie)
Wo refers to a whole situation
Was refers to indefinites, things, which (was im x ist / was sehr x war / was
sehr x ist)
Da-compounds:
If referring forward can be separated by a comma
If referring backwards must be separated by semi-colon and start a new Hauptsatz
Passive:
For the love of god pay attention to word order
Passive is past participles
Wird + pp
Wurde + pp
Ist + pp + worden
War + pp + worden
Wird + pp + werden
Modals:
Present is Muss + pp + werden
Past is Musste + pp + werden
Sub Regular:
Present is würde + pp
Past is wäre + pp + worden
Sub Modals:
Present is Müsste + pp + werden
Subjunctive:
Two present forms: irregular and the würde construction + infinitive
Past form is appropriate auxillary verb plus the past participle (careful with
auxillaries)
Sub Modals:
Present is Müsste + infinitive
Past is Hätte + infinitive + modal infinitive
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