GER 199 Grammar for Students of Germanic Languages

(in time schedule on line as "GER 199 Sp St Grammar Ger Stu")

CRN 16342

Credits: 02

Grading Option: Optional for all students

Time: 0800-0850

Day: MW

Location: 217 FR

Instructor: Plant H

Notes: K (all lectures and readings in English)

Prerequisites: none

Required Text: A Handbook of Comparative Grammar for Students of Foreign Languages, by Richard Chandler and Alden Hefler, and a workbook for the above text, both available at The Copy Shop on 13th Ave (west of Patterson) for a total of less than ten dollars.

This new course is designed to help English speaking students with their study of an inflected language such as German or one of the Romance languages: thorough explanation of such traditional grammatical concepts as parts of speech, simple and complex sentences, independent and dependent clauses, subjects, indirect and direct objects, cases, indicative vs subjunctive, active-passive, what it means to "conjugate" (is not a dirty word) or to "decline" articles and nouns (Mark Twain said he'd rather decline two beers than one German noun).

No knowledge of a foreign language required. This course is recommended to students of foreign languages who have forgotten most of their English grammar and wish they hadn't. If you can read and understand a foreign language grammar book on your own you don't need this course.

Direct questions to Helmut Plant at 344-0748 or send email to hplant@darkwing.uoregon.edu

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