02674cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000190011324500230013225000180015526400510017330000470022433600260027133700260029733800360032349000280035950000310038750801790041852013630059753400640196065300490202465300310207365300480210483000280215285600580218085600430223899900190228176864UtSlPG20260610134759.0mcr n260607r20251900utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPD1 aLange, Hermann10aGerman composition  aThird edition 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aClarendon Press series.  aRelease date is 2025-09-12  aJens 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)  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cOxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1900  aGerman language -- Composition and exercises  aGerman language -- Grammar  aEnglish language -- Translating into German 0aClarendon Press series.4 uhttps://archive.org/details/germancompositi00languoft40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76864  c117589d117589