Theory note · Grade 5
Text and types of speech
What a text is and how narration, description and reasoning differ.
All materials
The lessons are in Russian; titles and summaries are in English.
Found: 30 materials
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
Parts of speech
Independent and function parts of speech, interjections and onomatopoeia; the TT shape for each.
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
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
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
Main parts of the sentence
Subject and predicate: what they mean, what expresses them and when a dash goes between them.
Theory note · Grade 6
Personal and reflexive pronouns
Person and number of personal pronouns, their declension, and the reflexive «себя».
Theory note · Grade 6
Transitive and reflexive verbs
How to tell whether a verb is transitive, and why reflexive verbs are always intransitive.
Table · Grade 6
Verb moods
Indicative, conditional and imperative mood: meaning, formation and how they change.
Theory note · Grade 6
Morphological analysis of a verb
A five-step plan for parsing a verb, with a model.
Theory note · Grade 6
One tense used for another
How the present tense is used with future or past meaning.
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
Degrees of comparison of adverbs
Which adverbs form degrees of comparison and what the simple and compound forms look like.
Theory note · Grade 7
Words of the state category
What state words mean and how to tell them from adverbs.
Theory note · Grade 7
Derived prepositions
Where derived prepositions come from, which case they take and how they are spelled.
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).
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 predicate
Simple verbal, compound verbal and compound nominal predicates.
Table · Grade 8
One-member sentences
Five kinds of one-member sentences: what the main member is and what it means.
Theory note · Grade 9
Complex sentences: attributive and object clauses
Patterns of attributive and object clauses, conjunctions and relative words, and how to tell them apart.
