Excerpt from A German Drill Book: Containing Materials Essential to Beginners in the Study of German His little book presents in a systematic and concise form such materials for the study of German as teachers are accustomed to collect, at great expense of time and labor, from the grammar, the dictionary, the reader, the sight book, the com position book, and other' sources. To facilitate reviews and drill work, the book is arranged by topics, which both teachers and students will easily find. A word of explanation with regard to the use of the book may not be out of place. The author's classes in German do written work with every lesson. Heretofore, the classes have met five hours a week. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday are taken up with exercises from a grammar. For Wednesday, a review is required from the Drill Book, covering the ground of the preceding four lessons. The hour on Wednesday is given to an examination on the review, and some additional test is added. At the beginning of the year, this test is the inflection of nouns and adjectives, or a word list, with a sentence or two from the materials beginning on page 135. Toward the middle of the fall term, when the students know the commonest inflections of nouns, adjectives, and verbs, and have a small vocabulary, more diflicult english-german sentences are set, with a bit of German English, selected from the passages beginning on page 145. By the end of the fall term, the important inflections, including the irregular verbs and the mood auxiliaries, have been studied once and reviewed week by week from the Drill Book. Besides this, about fifty pages of easy prose have been read. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.