02674cam a22003733u 4500 76864 UtSlPG 20260610134759.0 m cr n 260607r20251900utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PD Lange, Hermann German composition Third edition Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Clarendon Press series. Release date is 2025-09-12 Jens Sadowski, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "German Composition: A Theoretical and Practical Guide to the Art of Translating English Prose into German" by Hermann Lange is a language-instruction manual written in the late 19th century. It teaches students to render English prose into clear, idiomatic German through a blend of concise grammar rules, guided practice, and carefully chosen texts. Aimed at classroom learners and exam candidates, it emphasizes method, accuracy, and style over word-for-word translation. The opening of the manual sets out its purpose, audience, and method in two prefaces, highlighting careful text selection, analytic translation, and extensive notes, along with a synopsis of the then-new German spelling reforms. It then gives explicit directions for use (viva voce preparation with notes, written translation, correction, and a second fluent oral rendering without notes), a lesson plan, and a list of abbreviations. The instructional content begins with brief rules on notation and core grammar points, followed by early sections that pair short English extracts with detailed guidance on issues like the passive with werden, the “zu”-infinitive (supine), rendering the gerund, pronoun and article use, relative clauses, and idiomatic choices—immediately modeling how to think through and produce correct German. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1900 German language -- Composition and exercises German language -- Grammar English language -- Translating into German Clarendon Press series. https://archive.org/details/germancompositi00languoft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76864 117589 117589