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Practice Makes Perfect Complete German Grammar Book
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete German Grammar is the comprehensive grammar workbook of the long-running Practice Makes Perfect series — the whole grammar of German, explained in short units and drilled with exercises, in one substantial volume built for serious self-study.
Its method is the series’ signature: a clear, brief explanation of one grammar point at a time, immediately followed by practice — sentences to complete, transform, translate, and write — with an answer key that makes the book its own teacher. From nouns and cases through the full tense system to word order and the subjunctive, nothing essential is left to another book.
It is written for learners who want grammar mastered rather than met: students from beginner consolidation to intermediate, examination candidates, and self-teachers who find that courses introduce grammar faster than it can be absorbed. This is the absorbing, at workbook pace, with a pen.
German grammar intimidates because it is a system — cases feeding articles feeding adjective endings — and systems are learned by working them, not by reading about them. This workbook’s architecture honours that: bite-size units isolate one mechanism at a time, explanations stay in plain English with German examples throughout, and the exercises are voluminous enough that a pattern is practised past recognition into reflex. The coverage is genuinely complete for the learner’s purposes — the four cases in full, all the tenses including the passive and Konjunktiv, prepositions and their cases, comparisons, relative clauses, and the word-order rules that hold German sentences together. Used alongside any course it is the missing practice volume; used alone with its answer key, it is a grammar course entire. Few German books are finished as thoroughly as this one is designed to be.
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About This Book
Every German learner eventually needs the grammar book — the one that explains the system whole and drills it properly. The Practice Makes Perfect volume is built to be that book: a complete German grammar presented as a workbook, where every rule arrives with its exercises attached and no topic is considered learned until it has been practised in writing.
What Learners Will Study
The Case System in Full
Nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive — what each case does, how articles and adjectives signal it, which prepositions and verbs govern which — taught as the connected machine it is, with the drilling that makes endings automatic.
Verbs and the Tense System
Present, perfect, simple past, future, and pluperfect; regular, irregular, separable, and reflexive verbs; modals; the imperative; the passive; and the subjunctive for politeness, wishes, and reported speech — the complete verbal engine of German, unit by unit.
Sentences That Hold Together
Word order in main and subordinate clauses, conjunctions, relative clauses, comparisons, and the infinitive constructions — the syntax that turns correct words into German sentences, practised through transformation and translation exercises throughout.
Key Features
The explanation-then-exercise rhythm is the feature: no rule is left unpractised, and the answer key turns solitary study into tutored study. The completeness is the second — this is a reference as well as a course, the volume learners keep beside them for years.
Who This Book Is For
It is for learners from A2 consolidation through B2, GCSE, A-level, and Goethe-Institut examination candidates, university students whose lectures outpace their grammar, and teachers who need a reliable exercise bank keyed to every topic they teach.
How to Use This Book
Work in order, a unit at a time, with a pen and a notebook for errors: grammar is learned in the hand. Do every exercise in writing before consulting the key, and re-do the units your notebook flags. Alongside a course, use the workbook as the second pass — the lesson explains, this book installs. Return to finished units monthly; the system stays yours only if it is revisited.
Related Books
A shorter grammar course is the German Grammar Book. The beginner foundation is Basic German A Grammar and Workbook.
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