On German Sentence Structure

It is recognized by all teachers of the German language that German sentence structure is one of the greatest stumbling blocks for the foreign student, especially in the area of scientific or non-scientific expository prose. In view of this fact, it is surprising that so little attention has been paid to an organized approach to the problem; indeed, it is usually relegated to a short chapter toward the end of the grammar book, or is summarized in an admonition to the student to look for the verb at the end of the sentence. Some of the better

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