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Mixed B1 review
Several concepts per sentence — narration, opinion, passive, infinitives and relative clauses in one place.
Nothing new here. The point of a review unit is that the questions do not tell you which lesson they came from, which is the only honest test of whether something is learned.
When a sentence resists you, find the verb first. Everything in German word order is decided relative to it.
| If you need to … | reach for |
|---|---|
| tell what happened | Perfekt + war/hatte/konnte + zuerst, dann, schließlich |
| say one thing happened first | nachdem + Plusquamperfekt |
| say why | weil (verb last) or deshalb (verb second) |
| concede a point | trotzdem, einerseits … andererseits |
| say what is done to something | wird / wurde / muss … werden |
| describe precisely | a relative clause: mit dem, in der, dessen, was |
| link two verbs | zu + infinitive, or um/ohne/statt … zu |
Treating deshalb and weil as the same word with the same grammar.weil sends the verb to the end; deshalb keeps it in position 2.
This is the single most reliable way to tell an A2 sentence from a B1 one.
Words from this topic
- wiederholento repeat, to revise
- die die Zusammenfassungthe summary
- der der Zusammenhangthe connection, the context
- sicherconfident; safe