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The same thing said to a friend and said in a reportChoosing between two forms that are both correct. Spoken German uses weil with the verb…The German that turns verbs into nounsTurning a verb clause into a noun phrase and back, which is what separates school German…Three-storey sentences: how every verb gets closedWriting and above all READING the long German sentence, the one with a clause inside a…Words that look like yours and are not, and the ones that travel in pairsThe two things that make a correct text sound wrong. False friends —Gymnasium is not a…Daumen drücken, ins Wasser fallen: the bits that do not translateThe expressions a German uses without thinking and that you cannot work out: die Daumen…Condensing without changing meaningSummarise while preserving conditions, scope, source and certainty.
Another oneKeep practising: GermanThe rule, in three lines
A counterexample can defeat a generalisation without proving its opposite; rebut the relevant link rather than an exaggerated version.
The usual slip. Exaggerate the opposing position or turn a partial objection into wholesale rejection.
Why it catches you out. When reformulating, preserve subjects, scope and certainty; justify each change against the context.
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- The same thing said to a friend and said in a reportChoosing between two forms that are both correct. Spoken German uses weil with the verb…
- The German that turns verbs into nounsTurning a verb clause into a noun phrase and back, which is what separates school German…
- Three-storey sentences: how every verb gets closedWriting and above all READING the long German sentence, the one with a clause inside a…