A First Book in German als Taschenbuch von H. C. G. Brandt - Paperback

Excerpt from A First Book in German: Containing the Accidence and Syntax of the Author's German Grammar, New Indices, and Lodeman's Exercises

At the suggestion made by several teachers, Part I. of the Grammar and Lodeman's Exercises with the complete English-German Vocabulary have been here bound together for use in secondary schools, whose younger pupils had been first put into one of the many short grammars. I should have liked to include the chapters on Accent and on Word-Formation from Part II.; but there are practical objections to this. The indices of the Grammar are added to this unchanged.

Preface To The Fourth Edition Of The Grammar.

This is the first thoroughly revised edition. Of the criticisms of this work, I have been able to accept and embody especially those of Prof. A. L. Ripley, of Yale College, and of Prof. George O. Curme, of Cornell College (Iowa), to both of whom I express my sincere thanks. The strictures made upon my classification of nouns and upon the standard of pronunciation I do not think well founded. The classification of nouns is historical and scientific. If the standard pronunciation should finally settle upon kh, jh ( 375) for g and not upon k (surd stop), nothing would please me better. "Hard" g, except after n, is a bitter pill for a North German.

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