Table · Grade 5
Branches of linguistics
Eleven terms: what each branch of linguistics studies and what its name means.
All materials
The lessons are in Russian; titles and summaries are in English.
Found: 44 materials
Theory note · Grade 5
Text and types of speech
What a text is and how narration, description and reasoning differ.
Theory note · Grade 5
The speech situation
Who speaks to whom, where and why — and how this shapes the style of speech.
Table · Grade 5
Functional styles
The colloquial style and four bookish styles: features, function and where they are used.
Theory note · Grade 5
How to identify the style of a text
A ten-step plan: from topic and speech situation to a conclusion about style.
Theory note · Grade 5
Retelling a text (izlozhenie)
Kinds of retelling, an eleven-step plan and ways to compress a text.
Theory note · Grade 5
Short essay: a work plan
Five steps for a short essay: aim, plan, topic, checking and reading aloud.
Theory note · Grade 5
Correcting your mistakes
What to do with each kind of mistake: dictionary words, spelling rules, analyses, transcription, speech.
Theory note · Grade 5
Speech sounds: vowels and consonants
How many vowel and consonant sounds and letters Russian has, and which consonants come in pairs.
Theory note · Grade 5
Phonetic analysis of a word
How to analyse a word sound by sound (using «льётся») and how tricky letter clusters are pronounced.
Theory note · Grade 5
Intonation: expressive speech
Five tools of expressive speech and a marked-up example from a poem.
Table · Grade 5
Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, paronyms
How words relate by meaning, sound and spelling — from synonyms to homographs.
Theory note · Grade 5
Morphemes and their kinds
What a morpheme is, its kinds, and how it differs from a sound and a word.
Theory note · Grade 5
Morphemic analysis
Six steps of morphemic analysis, using the word «книжный».
Theory note · Grade 5
Parts of speech
Independent and function parts of speech, interjections and onomatopoeia; the TT shape for each.
Theory note · Grade 5
The noun
What a noun names, which questions it answers and what features it has.
Theory note · Grade 5
Noun cases and declensions
The six cases with their questions and helper words, and the three noun declensions.
Theory note · Grade 5
Proper and common nouns; animate and inanimate nouns
How to tell proper from common nouns and animate from inanimate ones.
Theory note · Grade 5
Noun gender: common gender and tricky words
What common gender is, how to agree job titles, and the gender of tricky words.
Theory note · Grade 5
Heteroclitic and indeclinable nouns
The ten nouns in -mya plus «путь»; how to find the gender of indeclinable nouns.
Theory note · Grade 5
The adjective
What an adjective expresses, which questions it answers, how it changes and how to parse it.
Theory note · Grade 5
The verb
What a verb expresses, its fixed and changing features and its role in a sentence.
Theory note · Grade 5
Verb aspect and tense
Perfective and imperfective aspect; how verbs change in the past, present and future.
Theory note · Grade 5
Roots with vowel alternation (a): final consonant and suffix -a-
When the vowel in a root depends on the root's final consonant or on the suffix -a- after it.
Theory note · Grade 5
Roots with vowel alternation (b): stress and meaning
When the vowel in a root depends on stress or on the root's meaning.
Theory note · Grade 5
Prefixes: invariable ones and those ending in -z / -s
Which prefixes never change and how to choose z or s at the end of a prefix.
Theory note · Grade 5
Y or I after prefixes and after ts
When a root after a prefix starts with y or i, and how to choose the letter after ts.
Theory note · Grade 5
O or Yo after sibilants in the root
How to choose O or Yo after sibilants in a stressed root, plus the words to memorise.
Theory note · Grade 5
O or E (Yo) after sibilants and ts in suffixes and endings
How to choose o, e or yo after sibilants and ts in suffixes and endings.
Theory note · Grade 5
Hard and soft signs: dividing signs and after sibilants
Where the dividing hard and soft signs go, and when a soft sign follows a sibilant at the end of a word.
Theory note · Grade 5
NE with nouns
When ne is joined to a noun and when it is written separately.
Theory note · Grade 5
Unstressed noun endings
Which letter to write in unstressed genitive, dative and prepositional endings of each declension.
Theory note · Grade 5
Suffixes -ek-, -ik- and -chik-
How to choose -ek- or -ik-, and after which consonants -chik- is written.
Theory note · Grade 5
NE with adjectives
Three cases where ne is joined to an adjective and four where it is written separately.
Theory note · Grade 5
Verb conjugation and unstressed endings
How to find a verb's conjugation from its infinitive and choose the unstressed personal ending.
Theory note · Grade 5
Verb suffixes -ova- (-eva-) and -yva- (-iva-)
How to choose the verb suffix using the first-person present form.
Theory note · Grade 5
The phrase (word combination)
What a phrase is, what is not a phrase, and the kinds of phrases by head word.
Theory note · Grade 5
The sentence and parsing it
Features of a sentence, school underlining marks and a model parse.
Theory note · Grade 5
Main parts of the sentence
Subject and predicate: what they mean, what expresses them and when a dash goes between them.
Table · Grade 5
Secondary parts of the sentence
Attribute, object and adverbial: questions, meaning, typical forms and underlining.
Theory note · Grade 5
Kinds of adverbials
Eight kinds of adverbials by meaning and the questions they answer.
Theory note · Grade 5
Homogeneous parts and the generalising word
Features of homogeneous parts and three patterns with a generalising word.
Theory note · Grade 5
The complex sentence
Compound, complex and asyndetic sentences: patterns and conjunctions.
Theory note · Grade 5
Direct speech: punctuation patterns
Five punctuation patterns for direct speech and the author's words.
