7.6.1.2 Textbook exemplar: First Year German 
              Another recommended resource from 1911 on was Collar’s First Year German. In this book consisting of 
              sixty two-page lessons, German grammar is broken down into short segments. Lesson 4, for example, 
              deals  with  the  Dative  Case:  Indirect  Object.  The  lesson  starts  with  two  German  sentences  and  their 
              translation (1. Mein Vetter hat seinem Freund einen Hund gegeben [My cousin has given his friend a dog, 
              or has given a dog to his friend]; 2. Er hat ihn seinem Freund gekauft [He bought it for his friend]). These 
              sentences are immediately commented upon: 
                 In the above model sentences seinem Freund is in the dative case and denotes the person to or for whom the act 
                 of giving or buying is done; such a dative is called the indirect object. Note also that in 1. the indirect object 
                 precedes the direct; in 2. the direct object, ihn, precedes the indirect. 
              These explanations are then summarized in two rules: 
                 75. Rule. – The indirect object is in the dative. 
                 76. Rule. – The indirect object usually precedes the direct, except when the direct object is a personal pronoun. 
              A note immediately thereafter comments upon these two rules: 
                 If both objects are personal pronouns, the shorter usually precedes. If they are of the same length, the direct 
                 precedes the indirect; but dir and mir may come first or second in order. 
              After  a  brief  bilingual  vocabulary  list,  the  personal  pronouns  are  translated,  and  paradigms  of  the 
              pronouns are given. The exercises consist of questions and answers (11 items with several sentences each) 
              and translations (4 items with several sentences each). At the end of the book, there are a grammar 
              appendix and a collection of various literary readings as well as additional practice passages, based on the 
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              German readings, for translation into German.   
                      
                                                                                
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                William C. Collar, First Year German (Boston: Ginn, 1905), 30–31.