Modern German Grammar: A Practical Guide

Modern German Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference grammar combining a traditional and function-based approach in one book.

Part A covers traditional grammar categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives, and Part B is organised around language functions and notions such as:

• discussing possibilities


• making introductions


• attracting attention


• delivering a speech.

The book addresses the learners’ practical needs and presents grammar in both a traditional and communicative setting.

New to this edition, and building on feedback from the previous edition is:

• the new spelling reform, the ongoing controversy of the ‘ess-zett’, or ß and the new rules, (or rejection of the most recent reform, Die Reform der Reform)


• European ML/US MLA reference framework to set the level of this book


• up-to-date examples and a more pluricentric approach (the German of Switzerland and Austria)


• section on, and examples elsewhere of English loan-words


• an even more comprehensive index.