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Intermediate German A Grammar And Workbook
Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook is the second-stage grammar volume in the well-known Grammar and Workbook format — the German grammar an intermediate learner actually needs, presented in short teachable units, each followed immediately by written practice.
The book assumes the beginner foundations and builds the structure on top of them: the case system used with confidence, the full range of tenses, subordinate clauses and word order, passive and subjunctive, and the finer points — adjective endings, prepositions, connectors — where intermediate German is won or lost. Every unit teaches one thing, then makes the learner do it.
It is written for learners moving from A2 toward B1 and B2: students whose beginner course has ended, examination candidates consolidating, and self-teachers who know the basics and want the grammar finished properly, with exercises enough to make it permanent.
Intermediate grammar is where German stops being a set of phrases and becomes a system the learner can operate — and it is exactly where many learners stall, because beginner books end and advanced grammars intimidate. This workbook occupies the productive middle: university-grade coverage in self-study form. Its unit rhythm — concise explanation in accessible English, German examples throughout, then varied exercises with answers — lets a learner work alone without a teacher and still know, page by page, whether the grammar is right. The topics are the true intermediate agenda: case government in depth, the past tenses in narration, reported speech and Konjunktiv II for politeness and hypothesis, relative clauses, the passive, and the connective tissue of longer German sentences. It is the natural second grammar book, and for many learners the last one they need to buy.
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About This Book
Grammar workbooks divide by level for a reason: the grammar an intermediate learner needs is not more of the beginner’s grammar, it is the grammar’s second storey. This volume teaches that storey — the structures that carry narration, opinion, politeness, and complexity — in the proven unit-and-exercise format that makes self-study honest.
What Learners Will Study
The Case System, Mastered
Beyond the beginner’s endings: case after prepositions in full, two-way prepositions in real sentences, genitive in written German, adjective endings across all three article types, and the pronouns in every case — the machinery of precision German, drilled until it is reflex.
Tenses for Real Narration
The simple past for storytelling and writing, the perfect in speech, the pluperfect for sequence, the future for plans — and the passive for formal and factual German, with the subjunctive (Konjunktiv II) for courtesy, wishes, and the hypothetical talk of adult life.
Sentences That Connect
Subordinate clauses and their verb-final order, relative clauses with their case-driven pronouns, infinitive clauses with zu, and the connectors that build longer arguments — the syntax that separates intermediate speakers from phrase-reciters.
Key Features
The two-part unit is the feature: no explanation without immediate written practice, and answers for everything, so solitary study stays self-correcting. The level discipline is the second — nothing beginner-basic repeated at length, nothing advanced for its own sake; the book is aimed precisely at the B1 climb.
Who This Book Is For
It is for learners who have finished a beginner grammar and ask what is next, Goethe B1 and GCSE-to-A-level students, university learners whose reading now demands real grammar, and teachers who need an exercise-rich intermediate reference for class and homework.
How to Use This Book
Work the units in order — the sequence is cumulative — in writing, with the answers checked only after attempting every exercise. Keep an error notebook by unit; grammar at this level is fixed by noticing one’s own recurring mistakes. Pair it with reading: each finished unit will light up structures in the next German text you meet, which is the workbook quietly proving itself.
Related Books
The complete one-volume treatment is Practice Makes Perfect Complete German Grammar. The beginner foundation volume is Basic German A Grammar and Workbook.
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