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.
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The lessons are in Russian; titles and summaries are in English.
Found: 17 materials
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 sentence and parsing it
Features of a sentence, school underlining marks and a model parse.
Table · Grade 5
Secondary parts of the sentence
Attribute, object and adverbial: questions, meaning, typical forms and underlining.
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.
Table · Grade 6
Noun, adjective, numeral compared
Summary table of three nominal parts of speech: questions, meaning, features and role.
Theory note · Grade 6
Possessive pronouns
How to tell possessive его, её, их from personal pronouns and how possessives decline.
Theory note · Grade 6
Demonstrative pronouns
What demonstrative pronouns do, how they change and which sentence role they take.
Theory note · Grade 6
Determinative pronouns
Ves', kazhdyy, sam, samyy and others: meaning, sentence role, sam vs samyy.
Theory note · Grade 6
Pol- and polu- (half)
When pol- takes a hyphen, is joined or is separate, and why polu- is always joined.
Theory note · Grade 7
The participle
What a participle expresses, its verb and adjective features, and what voice is.
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 adverb
What an adverb expresses, which questions it answers, its classes and role.
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
Attributes: agreed and non-agreed
What an attribute is and what expresses agreed and non-agreed attributes.
Theory note · Grade 8
Separated attributes: an algorithm
Three questions that decide whether an attribute is set off by commas.
