German A1 to B2 in 90 days 

Lesson 1

-The ‘bracket’ construction -Verbs at the end of the clause -First position in main clauses -The order of words and phrases in the central section -The position of pronouns -The position of the noun subject and objects -The position of adverbials -The position of complements -The position of nicht -Placing elements after the verbal bracket -Word order in context

FOUR German sentence structure patterns
These are the FOUR German sentences patterns:
standard : SUBJECT + VERB + MORE NOUNS + MORE VERBS.
PRINCIPLE #1: The subject noun (nominative case) MUST be next to the verb.
PRINCIPLE #2: The verb MUST be the 2nd element (a.k.a. in the 2nd position).

inverted : VERB + SUBJECT + MORE NOUNS + MORE VERBS.
The 2nd pattern (inverted) very simply swaps around the SUBJECT and VERB, primarily when asking a YES / NO question:

transposed: MORE NOUNS + VERB + SUBJECT + MORE VERBS.
Ich hätte meine Oma vom Flughafen angerufen, aber …
(I would have called my grandmother from the airport, but …)
Now look at it with a TRANSPOSED structure:
Meine Oma hätte ich vom Flughafen angerufen, aber …
Vom Flughafen hätte ich meine Oma angerufen, aber …

We have TWO options in German because we can take EACH of the ‘MORE NOUNS’ individual elements and move them (always just ONE at a time) to the FRONT of the sentence in order to emphasize that element.
#1 emphasizes that we would have called our grandmother (not someone else).
#2 emphasizes that we would have called from the airport (not from somewhere else).

subordinated

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