Table · Grade 5
Functional styles
The colloquial style and four bookish styles: features, function and where they are used.
All materials
The lessons are in Russian; titles and summaries are in English.
Found: 42 materials
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
Correcting your mistakes
What to do with each kind of mistake: dictionary words, spelling rules, analyses, transcription, speech.
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
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
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
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
The phrase (word combination)
What a phrase is, what is not a phrase, and the kinds of phrases by head word.
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 6
Describing a painting: an essay plan
A five-step plan for describing a painting and tips to make the description vivid.
Theory note · Grade 6
Native and borrowed words, professional terms and dialect words
Vocabulary by origin and by use: native, borrowed, professional and dialect words.
Theory note · Grade 6
Obsolete words: archaisms and historicisms
How archaisms differ from historicisms; old words for parts of the body; proverbs with obsolete words.
Theory note · Grade 6
Tropes
Words used figuratively: epithet, metaphor and its kinds, synecdoche, irony, antonomasia, oxymoron.
Theory note · Grade 6
The numeral
What a numeral means, its classes by meaning and by structure, and its role in a sentence.
Theory note · Grade 6
Possessive pronouns
How to tell possessive его, её, их from personal pronouns and how possessives decline.
Theory note · Grade 6
Morphological analysis of a verb
A five-step plan for parsing a verb, with a model.
Vocabulary · Grade 6
Grade 6 dictionary words
Nine groups of grade 6 dictionary words to memorise and practise.
Theory note · Grade 7
The interview
The interview as a journalistic genre: aims, kinds and how to prepare.
Theory note · Grade 7
Questions for an interview
Six kinds of questions, useful phrases and a plan for preparing an interview.
Theory note · Grade 7
The participle
What a participle expresses, its verb and adjective features, and what voice is.
Table · Grade 7
Forming participles: suffixes
Which stems the four kinds of participles come from and which suffixes each takes.
Theory note · Grade 7
Short participles; verb and participle compared
How short participles are formed and change, and how a participle differs from a verb.
Theory note · Grade 7
The gerund (deeprichastie)
What a gerund expresses, its suffixes, and how ne is written with gerunds.
Theory note · Grade 7
The preposition
What a preposition does, which relations it expresses, and its kinds by structure.
Theory note · Grade 7
Derived prepositions
Where derived prepositions come from, which case they take and how they are spelled.
Table · Grade 7
Subordinating conjunctions
Eight groups of subordinating conjunctions by meaning, with questions and examples.
Theory note · Grade 7
Particles: classes
Form-building and meaning particles; seven groups of meaning particles.
Theory note · Grade 7
Particles: spelling and analysis
Hyphenated particles, kinds by structure and origin, and morphological analysis.
Theory note · Grade 7
N and NN in participles and verbal adjectives
How four signs tell a participle (NN) from a verbal adjective (N).
Theory note · Grade 7
NE with participles
When ne is joined to a participle and when it is written separately.
Vocabulary · Grade 7
Spelling dictionary, part 2
Eight groups of tricky words: pre-/pri-, verbs, numerals, N/NN, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, particles.
Theory note · Grade 8
Phrases: types of subordinate link
Agreement, government and adjunction; indivisible phrases; a model analysis.
Theory note · Grade 8
Kinds of sentences; word order
Six features used to classify sentences, and direct and inverted word order.
Theory note · Grade 8
Kinds of predicate
Simple verbal, compound verbal and compound nominal predicates.
Theory note · Grade 8
Attributes: agreed and non-agreed
What an attribute is and what expresses agreed and non-agreed attributes.
Theory note · Grade 8
Apposition (a): what it is
What an apposition is, what it denotes and how to tell it from the word it describes.
Theory note · Grade 8
Apposition (b): the hyphen
When an apposition is joined with a hyphen and when it is written separately.
Table · Grade 8
One-member sentences
Five kinds of one-member sentences: what the main member is and what it means.
Table · Grade 8
Introductory words: groups by meaning
Nine groups of introductory words with examples and how to punctuate them.
Table · Grade 9
Adverbial clauses
Ten kinds of adverbial clauses: questions, conjunctions and models.
