Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions (Practice Makes Perfect Series) [Paperback]

Ed Swick (Author)

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Publication Date: March 29, 2006 | ISBN-10: 007145392X | ISBN-13: 978-0071453929 | Edition: 1

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.

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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

About the Author

Ed Swick has taught German for thirty years. He is also the author of Essential German Verb Skills.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 29, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007145392X
• ISBN-13: 978-0071453929
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #570,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practice Makes Perfect is Perfect!, May 16, 2008

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This review is from: Practice Makes Perfect: German Pronouns and Prepositions (Practice Makes Perfect Series) (Paperback)

I'm a MS & HS German teacher and I think this book is a great resource for teaching students or teaching yourself. Each new section begins with an explanation of the grammar concept, followed by several practice exercises. The explanations & exercises are very comprehensive and the answer key is included in the back of the book. I own all three books in the series (Pronouns & Prepositions, Verb Tenses, & Vocabulary) and I recommend them all!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Practice but you'd better have a strong vocabulary base, February 7, 2010

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This book is similar to the layout of the workbook required in my german 102 class. It definitely helps with extra practice of those prepositions and pronouns which can get a little confusing for first-time german students. As the sentences get more complex, pronouns and prepositions are a little more difficult to work with. This book gives really good straight-forward and basic exercises that are very helpful. NOTE: I had to keep my German Dictionary close by, however, because some of the vocabulary is a little advanced compared to where I am in class. I would suggest having a good dictionary or a fairly large vocabulary base before using this particular workbook. All in all, it does what it advertises it will do.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a beginner book, not an advanced book, January 14, 2011

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From reading the other reviews it sounds like others are coming to this book from the opposite end I am. Pronouns and prepositions are some of the hardest features of a language to master, so I bought this book in spite of already being quite proficient in German in hopes it could help me sort out the more challenging aspects of the language. What I found, instead, was a pretty basic overview of how prepositions and pronouns work.

I'd venture a guess that by the time a person has acquired the amount of vocabulary this book assumes, they would already have mastered 80% of the material the book presents. This book is definitely intended as a review book for someone who has already had a good amount of exposure to the language. I'd say this book could be helpful for someone who'd had around 2-3 years of German at the college level but still needed practice with pronouns, prepositions, and noun/adjective/article endings.

If you're a beginner, you'll definitely find this book assumes a level of grammar and vocabulary that you don't have. But at the same time, if you're more advanced, don't expect too much detail about the real idiosyncrasies of German grammar - such as what prepositions to use with uncommon verbs, etc. You won't find that here.