ABSTRACT
The examples illustrating points of grammar and usage have been drawn from a wide range of sources and registers, spoken as well as written. Many of the unattributed examples have been simplified or amended from modern texts, from phrases and sentences heard in conversation or on radio and television, etc. and in large number from the DeReKo corpus of modern spoken and written German compiled at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim. Longer examples quoted verbatim or with minor simplifications have been attributed wherever possible. The following sources have provided such material:
