How it works
How it works
How it works
The "Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik" provides a comprehensive overview of the syntax of German. Regardless of whether you read it as part of a syntax course at your university or on your own, this programme gives you the opportunity to apply what you have read by creating syntactic analyses yourself. This can be done to accompany and supplement your reading, but one or two sentences will certainly also inspire you to open the book, look something up and learn something new.
When you register for the programme, you will first receive a welcome email. In this email you will find a link to confirm your registration and start the programme as well as another link to stop the programme.
After confirmation, you will be sent an exercise set on a worksheet. You can print this out and start analysing it straight away. With the new sentence comes the solution to the previous one with a few notes. This allows you to compare and correct yourself.
You determine the interval at which you receive the tasks and solutions. You can solve one task per week or several on certain days, up to an intensive, daily exercise. It starts with short and clear sentences and leads up to longer sentence structures as you would really encounter them "in the wild", e.g. in the newspaper. The sentences are also organised according to complexity and the focus of the analysis, so that you get a systematic overview of the essential syntactic aspects of German. There are fifty tasks in total. Over time, you will not only gain routine in syntactic analysis by combining theory and practice, you will also develop an analytical view of sentences. You may not read faster, but you will see more.
Sign up and give it a try.
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The annotation paper, which you can download using the following link, contains useful tips and information on analysing and the structure format.
Annotation paper download
The tasks come in PDF format. Click on the following link to download the Adobe PDF reader.
Literature
Peter Eisenberg (2013): Grundriss der deutschen Grammatik. Volume 2: The sentence. 4th, updated and revised edition. Stuttgart, Weimar: J.B. Metzler.