German Extended Adjective Constructions as English Relative Clauses
1. As a rule of thumb, express German extended adjective constructions as English relative clauses.
2. Read from the beginning of the German extended adjective construction to the end of the construction and then work your way backwards.
3. Find the noun with which the initial article / der word /ein word agrees in gender, number, case.
4. Note the appropriate English relative pronoun for that noun.
5. Find the German adjective/participle preceding the noun and any modifiers of that adjective/participle
6. Note the appropriate English finite verb form of the German participle.
                                          a. German present participles usually expressed in English as present tense and active verb forms.
b.  German past participles usually expressed in English as past tense and passive verb forms.
c. Past participles of intransitive verbs [gehen] cannot logically appear as passive.
7. Use that form of the English finite verb as the verb in the English relative clause.

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