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The Boston Tea Party

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The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was no party at all. It was the beginning of the American Revolution.

Boston was a very important port in America in the 1700s. At that time America was still a colony of Britain. At about the same time, exactly in 1730, the British government demanded more taxes from the Americans who of course were not happy about that. So things were difficult between Britain and the USA at that time. And the Boston Massacre of 1700, in which British soldiers who were stationed in Boston, had killed five American men, had even made it worse.

In 1773 three ships that had tea on them were in Boston harbour. The tea was meant for a big British company and was about to be delivered. That was exactly in the night of December 16th, 1773.

Some American men, who called themselves „Sons of Liberty“ decided to go on board of these ships. They went there in three groups, 50 men in each one, dressed up as native Indians. They took boxes of tea and threw them into  the sea, while the people of Boston were watching them and cheered and waved. Actually 350 big  boxes of tea went into the sea. So the British company lost a lot of money.

The Americans said that they would not pay for the tea, so the British government was really angry.

This was actually the first time that the Americans protested against the British government and rules and therefore the Boston Tea Party is considered to be the beginning of the American revolution.

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Present Perfect Progressive - Exercises

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Modal Verbs: may - be allowed to - Grammar and exercises

Für may benutzt man die Ersatzform to be allowed to. Außer im Simple Present kann may in keiner anderen Zeitform verwebdet werden.

Bejahte Aussagesätze

Zeitform	Modalverb	Ersatzform	Bemerkung
Simple Present	I may play football.	I am allowed to play football. I'm allowed to play football.	Ich darf Fußball spielen.
Simple Past	kann nicht gebildet werden	I was allowed to play football.	Ich durfte Fußball spielen.
will-future	kann nicht gebildet werden	I will be allowed to play football. I'll be allowed to play football.	Ich werde Fußball spielen dürfen.

Es können auch noch von anderen Zeitformen die Ersatzformen gebildet werden.
z.B. Present Perfect: I have been allowed to play football.

Verneinung

Zeitform	Modalverb	Ersatzform	Bemerkung
Simple Present	I may not play football.	I am not allowed to play football. I'm not allowed to play football.	Ich darf nicht Fußball spielen.
Simple Past	kann nicht gebildet werden	I was not allowed to play football. I wasn't allowed to play football.	Ich durfte nicht Fußball spielen.
will-future	kann nicht gebildet werden	I will not be allowed to play football. I won't be allowed to play football.	Ich werde nicht Fußball spielen dürfen.

Fragen

Zeitform	Modalverb	Ersatzform	Bemerkung
Simple Present	May he play football.	Is he allowed to play football?	Darf er Fußball spielen?
Simple Past	kann nicht gebildet werden	Was he allowed to play football?	Durfte er Fußball spielen?
will-future	kann nicht gebildet werden	Will he be allowed to play football?	Wird er Fußball spielen dürfen?

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Sentence Starters and Connectives

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although nevertheless of course after all clearly still maybe // perhaps // probably it is true ... yet

obwohl, obgleich, wenn auch nichtsdestoweniger, dessen ungeachtet, dennoch natürlich, selbstverständlich nach alledem, also doch klar, deutlich und dennoch, trotzdem vielleicht, möglicherweise es ist wahr ... doch

therefore as a result consequently accordingly so otherwise in order to this is the reason why

deswegen, aus diesem Grund als Ergebnis, folglich folglich, infolgedessen demgemäß, entsprechend so, daher, folglich sonst, andernfalls um zu hier liegt der Grund für ...

but however though yet by the way (un)fortunately in general // generally usually normally probably

aber, sondern, jedoch jedoch, indes, aber obwohl, jedoch, trotzdem aber, doch übrigens, nebenbei gesagt (un)glücklicherweise Im Allgemeinen, gewöhnlich üblicherweise, normalerweise normalerweise, meistens, gewöhnlich wahrscheinlich, vermutlich

certainly indeed above all surely most important as a matter of fact no doubt // undoubtedly apparently // evidently obviously

sicher, gewiss, zweifellos in der Tat, tatsächlich vor allem, vor allen Dingen sicher, gewiss, bestimmt äußerst wichtig in Wirklichkeit, um die Wahrheit zu sagen zweifellos, wahrscheinlich augenscheinlich, offenbar offensichtlich, offenbar

now in addition in this case by no means furthermore in fact for that reason for that purpose

jetzt, nun noch dazu, außerdem in diesem Fall auf keinen Fall ferner, überdies, außerdem tatsächlich, in der Tat aus dem Grund / Anlass zu diesem Zweck