Intermediate Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks)

✍ Scribed by Jenneke A. Oosterhoff

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intermediate Dutch is designed for learners who have achieved a basic proficiency and wish to refine their knowledge of grammatical structures. This Workbook, along with its companion volume Basic Dutch, provides clear and concise summaries of the essential points of Dutch grammar as well as opportunities to practice using the structures of the language. Building on the lessons of Basic Dutch, each of the twenty-four units presents a grammatical topic with an introduction and overview, followed by contextualized exercises to reinforce learning. Features include: a clear accessible format many useful language examples abundant exercises with a full answer key frequent references to English grammar an appendix on irregular verbs an index of grammatical keywords. Suitable for independent learners and students on taught courses, Intermediate Dutch, together with its sister volume Basic Dutch, forms a structured course in the essentials of Dutch grammar.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
UNIT ONE Conjunctions......Page 10
UNIT TWO Conjunctional adverbs......Page 23
UNIT THREE Nouns......Page 31
UNIT FOUR Adjectives......Page 39
UNIT FIVE Possessives......Page 48
UNIT SIX Indefinite pronouns......Page 54
UNIT SEVEN The pronouns zich, zelf and elkaar......Page 64
UNIT EIGHT Demonstratives......Page 69
UNIT NINE Negatives......Page 73
UNIT TEN The adverb er......Page 79
UNIT ELEVEN Pronominal adverbs......Page 86
UNIT TWELVE Verbs of action and result......Page 93
UNIT THIRTEEN Durative constructions......Page 99
UNIT FOURTEEN The present participle......Page 105
UNIT FIFTEEN Talking about the future......Page 110
UNIT SIXTEEN Separable and inseparable verbs......Page 114
UNIT SEVENTEEN Relative clauses......Page 122
UNIT EIGHTEEN Indirect speech......Page 130
UNIT NINETEEN Conditional sentences......Page 135
UNIT TWENTY The passive......Page 142
UNIT TWENTY-ONE Infinitive constructions......Page 151
UNIT TWENTY-TWO Verb tenses......Page 157
UNIT TWENTY-THREE Prepositions......Page 167
UNIT TWENTY-FOUR Word order......Page 174
APPENDIX: Strong and irregular verbs......Page 182
KEY TO EXERCISES......Page 188
INDEX......Page 206