German GCSE coursework

Did you take a picture of your laptop screen =/

If you paste the text here we could probably help you easier.

Yes I did, sorry I don't have access to my laptop at the moment. Is there any way you can correct it and just tell me where the corrections go?

Das Schlimmste war das Besuchen von dem Geschichtemuseum. (the gerund [visiting] is difficult in German - I'm not certain if , zu besuchen works in the past like that, the way I have written should.) I'd say to stick with 'das Besuchen' as well. It does seem to sort of work, but you'd probably be safer using what Inexorably suggested.

Ich fand das sehr.. not Ich finde (past tense)

liebte alle von den Artefakten (all of artifacts doesn't make sense)

also ging Leah und ich... (verb has to go straight after also)

aber es war nicht alles schön - what do you mean here? You put in the English translation that 'there wasn't anything nice', so you could say 'aber es gab nichts Besonderes'

Dann wir in das Cafe gingen hatte ich eine Cola > what are you trying to say here? "Then we went to the cafe and i had a cola"? If so, think about where the verb gingen would go and then add the und and think about where hatte would go. Cola is also neutral

Auf der Reise zurück zu Leah's Hauses > I'm not certain if this how you say 'on the trip back to', but you don't use the apostrophe in German like this. Leahs Haus (why Hauses?) is correct. I think that you use nach instead of zu

brach das Auto - if you want to speak about a car breaking down say, das Auto hat(te in past) eine Panne.

so dass wir spät nach Hause kam - what do you mean here? Use 'also' here, so 'also kam wir spät nach Hause'.

warden = werden

Sie werden für einen Monat in London bleiben.

'Leah ist freue mit darauf' doesn't make sense - do you mean 'Leah freut sich darauf'?

werd = wird I think it's 'they will' here, so 'werden'

die konnte = sie konnte

"nach Brighton...etc." sounds wrong, what do you mean by nach? Pretty sure you don't use 'nach' with 'besuchen'

spaß sind = Spaß machen There's also a comma before 'weil'

verbessern has an r

neue Freunde (plural ending) machen

Leahs Schule

After ‘Sie hat vier Lektionen, die’, send the verb to the end (I think that you meant to say ‘dauert’ instead of ‘zuletzt’).

would remove es from ''denn sie liebt es''

Lieblingsfach should go to the plural as you're mentioning two subjects.

Capitalise all nouns and uncapitalise verbs.

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I'm uncertain about a few things (whether they're correct/incorrect) so @TheOtherSide pls send any help you can =] especially about whether the , zu besuchen works in past tense?

wrong person, i mean @TheOtherSide.

Comments are in bold - I hope these help...

Comments are in bold - I hope these help...

Ah yes it should be werden not wird, shouldda looked at the English translation x)

I'm not sure about nach/zu as I always thought nach was just for countries and cities - prepositions are too confusing.

Thanks for all of the other help you gave though and no problem about the tag

*Quotes you twice*

I found something useful on what preposition to use for 'to':

Normally, use nach for these.
Continents, islands, countries, cities and towns

Use in if you will end up inside a place or location
Use auf if you will end up on something - Auf is also sometimes used for going to formal events or public places.
Use an to describe motion to a precise spot, or to something that can be perceived as a horizontal or vertical boundary (something you would stand at or by in English)

If in doubt, use zu!
Zu can replace in if you need not emphasize that you are going inside, and must replace in if it would be absurd to speak of going inside--e.g. driving to a building, visiting a person.

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So I think they're correct in using zu but I can't imagine 'back to' literally being 'zurück zu' in German. As for the Brighton one; I agree nach just sounds wrong with besuchen.

I was just confused because you usually say fahren nach Hause when you say you're going home, so I assumed that it would be the same for if you said you'd be going to someone else's house




According to this website: http://www.thegermanprofessor.com/zuhauseornachhause/

Zu Hause is the same as at home (as in you're already in the house)
Nach Hause means going home (you're moving in the direction towards home)

I guess this would only count if the same applied when talking to someone else's house...

But yeah, in other instances, I'll probably just stick to 'zu', because I don't seem to get prepositions

Yeah I use zu Hause for "at home" so I was a tiny bit skeptical and the website you linked to does seem to suggest nach Hause is correct. Perhaps Hause is just an exception to the zu vs nach rule?

So yes it does seem that nach is correct (after all of that du hast Recht ). This image can help you with some prepositions (you are the GREEN dot), but obviously quite a few aren't on there:



and np OP

That poster looks so helpful! Thanks!

By the way, I looked up more to do with when to say 'nach', and your version probably still sticks - when you say 'nach Hause' you're talking about home, and you don't exactly say 'I'm going to X's home', rather you say 'I'm going to X's house', so in the same way, you'd just stick to zu when talking about going to Leah's (was it Leah?) house.

So actually, du hattest Recht von Anfang!

No problem

I looked it up some more as well and I came to a different conclusion xD. I concluded that 'nach' is always used for Hause when you are talking about motion towards a home and 'zu' when you are at home. Here's the video I watched that summed it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52gQieDDQY

So bin ich mir sicher, dass "nach" eigentlich richtig ist xD.

https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22ich+gehe+zu+deinem+haus%22

https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22ich+gehe+nach+deinem+haus%22

Stuff comes up when I type 'Ich gehe zu deinem Haus', but not for 'Ich gehe nach deinem Haus', so shouldn't 'zu' be the correct one?

https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22ich+gehe+zu+deinem+haus%22

https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22ich+gehe+nach+deinem+haus%22

Stuff comes up when I type 'Ich gehe zu deinem Haus', but not for 'Ich gehe nach deinem Haus', so shouldn't 'zu' be the correct one?

"Ich gehe nach Hause." I go home. (Here one is not speaking of "Haus" in the sense of "house", but of "home". One could e.g. also say: "I fly home to England." = "Ich fliege nach Hause nach England."
"Ich gehe zu deinem Haus." I go to your house.

"Ich gehe nach Hause." I go home. (Here one is not speaking of "Haus" in the sense of "house", but of "home". One could e.g. also say: "I fly home to England." = "Ich fliege nach Hause nach England."
"Ich gehe zu deinem Haus." I go to your house.

So would Leahs House be "Ich gehe zu Leahs Hause"?

That's what I found too, when searching up when to say nach Hause, so when saying 'on the trip back to Leah's house', should 'zu' be used because we're talking about the house of Leah?

Yes. In case you are only talking about Leahs house like Leahs tree, you use zu.