Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Brief German Grammar
This grammar is intended to meet the practice of those teachers who believe that a thorough grounding of the essentials of German Grammar is the best preparation for reading and speaking German. It is so planned that it can be completed by the end of the first half of a school year, and a pupil who has carefully worked out each lesson will have at his command clear ideas regarding the main facts of the language and will be well equipped to take up the annotated texts commonly used in first and second year work.
So far as possible each subject is presented in consecutive lessons. The regular strong and weak conjugations are introduced at the beginning; and when the fourteenth lesson is completed the pupil should be able to conjugate any strong verb of which he knows the principal parts, and any weak verb which he knows to be weak. The habits of different teachers in presenting the various groups of strong and irregular verbs vary so much that it seemed best to leave all possible freedom in this matter. Consequently verbs are not, as a rule, specifically assigned for study after the forms of conjugation have been learned. In the appendix all important strong and irregular verbs are grouped in a practical system, and the teacher may assign these by groups or he may assign new verbs as they occur in the exercises.
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