Table · Grade 5
Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, paronyms
How words relate by meaning, sound and spelling — from synonyms to homographs.
All materials
The lessons are in Russian; titles and summaries are in English.
Found: 35 materials
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
The adjective
What an adjective expresses, which questions it answers, how it changes and how to parse 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
NE with adjectives
Three cases where ne is joined to an adjective and four where it is written separately.
Table · Grade 5
Secondary parts of the sentence
Attribute, object and adverbial: questions, meaning, typical forms and underlining.
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
Classes of adjectives
Qualitative, relative and possessive adjectives: meaning, suffixes and properties.
Theory note · Grade 6
The numeral
What a numeral means, its classes by meaning and by structure, and its role in a sentence.
Table · Grade 6
Noun, adjective, numeral compared
Summary table of three nominal parts of speech: questions, meaning, features and role.
Theory note · Grade 6
Determinative pronouns
Ves', kazhdyy, sam, samyy and others: meaning, sentence role, sam vs samyy.
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
Prefixes pre- and pri-
The meanings of the prefixes pre- and pri- and word pairs that are easy to confuse.
Vocabulary · Grade 7
Obsolete adverbs
Old adverbs found in literature: what they mean, with examples.
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 preposition
What a preposition does, which relations it expresses, and its kinds by structure.
Table · Grade 7
Subordinating conjunctions
Eight groups of subordinating conjunctions by meaning, with questions and examples.
Theory note · Grade 7
N and NN in short participles and adjectives
Why a short participle has one n while a short adjective keeps the same as the full form.
Theory note · Grade 7
Adverbs: joined or separate
When adverbs formed with prepositions are joined or separate, plus a list of tricky adverbs.
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
Agreement of predicate with subject
When the predicate is singular, when plural, and when both are possible.
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
Separated appositions
When an apposition is set off by commas, when not, and when a dash replaces the comma.
Theory note · Grade 8
Separated attributes: an algorithm
Three questions that decide whether an attribute is set off by commas.
Theory note · Grade 8
Phrases with KAK: comma or not
An algorithm for when a phrase with kak is set off by commas and when it is not.
Theory note · Grade 8
Separated objects
Which prepositions make an object separated and why vmesto is an exception.
Table · Grade 8
Introductory words: groups by meaning
Nine groups of introductory words with examples and how to punctuate them.
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.
