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When should you use an apostrophe?

There are two situations when you can use an apostrophe: contractions and for possession. I will start with contractions as this is the easiest. A contraction is when you squash two words into one shorter wo...
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How important is a knowledge of current affairs for my exam?

Whilst you can gain extra marks from having recent examples to illustrate your points, a knowledge of the course content is more important than knowing precise details of current affairs. Detials about elect...
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When do I capitalise the first letter of a word?

Generally, all nouns are capitalised. When I was in school our teacher told us that “anything you can touch” is capitalised. However, this is somewhat simplified as abstract nouns such as Zeit , Liebe , und ...
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Are there fun ways to learn German?

Language learning doesn’t have to be a tedious task of memorising verb tables (at least not all of the time). Duolingo : https://www.duolingo.com/One fun way of practising German is Duolingo. This free websi...
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When do I use "sein" in the perfect tense?

In German the perfect tense is formed with haben/sein + past participle. The majority of verbs use haben in the perfect tense (such as Ich habe gespielt – I played). Transitive verbs (verbs that take an accu...
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