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WORD GRAMMAR
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Verb
- Conjugation in indicative
- Person and number
- Tenses
- Voice
- Mood
- Verb categories
- Valency
- Semantic categories of verbs
- Finite / non-finite verb forms
- Noun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Article
- Pronoun
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Particle
- Interjection
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Verb
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SENTENCE GRAMMAR
- Clause types
- Complex clauses
- Constituents of a sentence
- Sentence structure
- Word order in a sentence
- Negation
Special features of the modal verbs
A modal verb can be connected with an infinitive only if the subject of the modal verb is the subject of the infinitive.
Examples | subject of the modal verb | subject of the infinitive |
Ich kann dir nicht helfen. | ich | ich |
Peter will seine Oma besuchen. | Peter | Peter |