Drei starke Frauen: subject pronouns, relative clauses, historic present
I can understand relative clauses and the historic present in an extended text.
Drei starke Frauen: subject pronouns, relative clauses, historic present
I can understand relative clauses and the historic present in an extended text.
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Key learning points
- Relative clauses add information about the noun in a main clause, without starting another sentence.
- Some relative clauses are embedded in a main clause.
- Match subject pronouns 'er', 'sie', 'es', 'sie' with the gender and number of a noun to mean 'it' and 'they'.
- The historic present narrates events in the past to make them feel more immediate.
Keywords
Subject pronoun - represents the person, people or thing(s) doing the verb, e.g., 'I', 'we', 'they'
Relative clause - adds information about the noun in the main clause
Historic present - narrates events in the past using the present tense
Common misconception
Like English, German uses 'it' and 'they' as subject pronouns to replace nouns.
In German, subject pronouns 'er', 'sie', 'es', 'sie' mean 'it' and 'they' and match the grammatical gender and number of the noun.
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