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Schaums Outline Of German Grammar Third Edition Book
Schaums Outline Of German Grammar, in its third edition, is the German volume of the famous Schaum’s Outline series — the study-guide format that has carried students through examinations for generations: every topic outlined concisely, then proven in hundreds of solved problems and practice exercises with answers.
The outline method is the opposite of the discursive textbook: no long explanations, but the rule stated, exemplified in fully worked problems, and then practised until it yields. The whole German grammar system is here — sounds and spelling, nouns and cases, verbs in all tenses and moods, sentence structure — compressed into the form students reach for the night before, and the semester before, the examination.
It is written for students above all: school and university learners whose course needs a companion that cuts to the point, examination candidates organising revision, and self-teachers who learn best from worked examples rather than from prose.
Schaum’s Outlines earned their place by respecting the student’s real questions: What do I need to know? Show me how it works. Let me try. Each chapter of this German grammar follows that liturgy — a tight outline of the topic with the essential tables, a run of solved problems that demonstrate the rules on real sentences (including the traps), then sets of supplementary problems with answers for the student’s own attempt. The third edition represents the mature form of the German volume, its organisation refined by decades of classroom use on both sides of the Atlantic. For revision it has no equal at its price: the entire grammar can be re-read in outline in an evening and re-proved in problems in a week. Tutors recommend it as the companion that makes any German course passable — and any good student faster.
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About This Book
The Schaum’s Outline is a genre unto itself: the subject, outlined; the rules, stated; the problems, solved. Applied to German grammar, it produces the companion volume students actually finish — a complete grammar whose every page either states a rule or makes the reader use one.
What Students Will Find
The Grammar in Outline
Every area of the German system in compressed, tabular form: pronunciation and spelling, nouns, articles and the cases, adjectives and pronouns, the verbal system entire — tenses, moods, passive, subjunctive — prepositions, and the architecture of the sentence. The outline is the content: nothing padded, nothing missing.
Solved Problems by the Hundred
Worked examples are the heart of the method — problems solved step by step, in full view, including the standard traps and the examiner’s favourite edges — so the student learns not only the rule but the rule’s behaviour under examination conditions.
Practice With Answers
Each chapter’s supplementary problems let the student prove the topic personally, with an answer key that makes the book a self-contained revision machine: outline, watch, attempt, check, move on.
Key Features
Compression is the feature: the whole grammar, reviewable at speed. The solved-problem method is the second — learning by worked example, the fastest route from knowing to being able — and the series’ reliability the third: a format refined over decades and trusted by tutors who set the examinations.
Who This Book Is For
It is for school students from GCSE to A-level, university students of German needing a grammar companion, candidates revising for any German examination, and self-teachers with a problem-solving bent. It also serves teachers as a quarry of graded problems and traps.
How to Use This Book
Use it alongside, not instead of, experience of the language: read the outline for the topic your course is on, study the solved problems until the method is obvious, then close the solutions and attempt the supplementary set honestly. For revision, work backward from problems: any problem you cannot do names the outline section to reread. In the final fortnight before an examination, this rhythm — problem, diagnose, outline, re-prove — is the most efficient grammar work there is.
Related Books
The full reference authority is Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage. A teaching grammar with exercises is Practice Makes Perfect Complete German Grammar.
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