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C1 cumulative review
One pass across twelve lessons, weighted towards what C1 is actually for.
Twelve lessons, one pass. Almost every item here asks you to write something rather than to pick something, because that is the honest test of whether a structure has become yours.
| Lesson | The one thing to retain |
|---|---|
| 1 Hedging | certainty and attribution are separate dials |
| 2 Density | article → noun → then the middle |
| 3 Nominalstil | a nominal phrase has no subject |
| 4 Particles | attitude, not content — and never position 1 |
| 5 Connectives | each names one exact relationship |
| 6 Register | fit, not height |
| 7 Konjunktiv II | a move in an argument, not an imaginary world |
| 8 Information structure | old before new; position 1 is the hook |
| 9 Impersonality | distance costs responsibility — spend it deliberately |
| 10 Cohesion | signal the turns, not every sentence |
| 11 Lexical precision | strength, stance, register, frame |
| 12 Idiom | ask what construction German uses for this job |
If one thing survives from the level: never change the strength of a claim you are reporting. Everything else a reader can repair.
Words from this topic
- maßgeblichdecisive, authoritative
- schlüssigcoherent, conclusive
- nachrangigof secondary importance
- bindendbinding
- die die Rangordnungthe order of priority
- der der Engpassthe bottleneck