Declarative Sentences and Word Order Flashcards
What is a predicate?
the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g., went home in John went home ).
A declarative sentence has?
Subject and a predicate
In German the subject is in what case?
and
The verb in the predicate is?
Nominative case
Conjugated appropriately for the subject and in a specific tense.
subject. + verb. + predicate
Andy. + sings + well
in this example, the subject and verb is conjugated in the present tense for a 3rd person singular subject .
Formula for making a sentence is?
Subject + predicate.
An example of a passive voice is?
German is spoken here
The present perfect tense is used more in:
most common form to use to describe an action in the past.
Simple past tense is used more in:
more often in a narrative
The future tense requires what auxiliary?
the word werden
ex. the children will play in the park.
Die Kinder werden im Garten spielen.
what word is commonly added to make the sentense negative subject?
nicht (not)
Ex.
Andy singt gut
Andy sings well
Andy singt nicht gut
Andy doesnt sing well
the word that negates the sentence like nicht is placed where?
In front of the element it is negating,
UNLESS
that element is the verb itself.
if this above than nicht follows the conjugated form or stands between the auxiliary and the responding infinitive or participle.
Nicht also follows
an adverb or abverbial phrase that describes time and place or an object that is in the exclusive case.
Nicht comes before a prepositional phrase or an adverbialthat describes the manner in which something was done.
subject + verb + nicht + prep.phrase
sub. + verb + nicht + prep.phr
Sie fahren nicht nach Hause.
They`re not driving home
what is an auxiliary word?
helps the main (full) verb and is also called a “helping verb.” With auxiliary verbs, you can write sentences in different tenses, moods, or voices. Auxiliary verbs are: be, do, have, will, shall, would, should, can, could, may, might, must, ought, etc.
am, is, are, was, and were
Be, being, and been,
Will, would, shall, should, may, might, must, can, and could
Do, does, and did and have and having, has, and had.
They help you form verb phrases
what is an infinitive?
The infinitive is the base form of a verb.
The to-infinitive is used in many sentence constructions, often expressing the purpose of something or someone’s opinion about something.
to sit sit
to eat eat
to have have
to remember
In English we use do / doesn`t when negating does German use this?
No, German uses nicht.
Ex.
Sie warten nicht auf Karin
The don`t weit vor Karin.
When the English Verb “to be” is the negated verb …..in German what is used instead?
Kein + noun
ich habe kein Geld
I don`t have any money
