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: 20 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 verb
What a verb expresses, its fixed and changing features and its role in a sentence.
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.
Theory note · Grade 6
Set phrases (idioms)
What makes a set phrase, where idioms come from, with examples from the notebook.
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
Demonstrative pronouns
What demonstrative pronouns do, how they change and which sentence role they take.
Theory note · Grade 6
Morphological analysis of a verb
A five-step plan for parsing a verb, with a model.
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
Words of the state category
What state words mean and how to tell them from adverbs.
Theory note · Grade 8
Kinds of sentences; word order
Six features used to classify sentences, and direct and inverted word order.
Table · Grade 8
How the subject is expressed (b): word combinations
Subjects expressed by a phrase, an idiom, a compound name or an invariable word.
Theory note · Grade 8
Kinds of predicate
Simple verbal, compound verbal and compound nominal predicates.
Theory note · Grade 8
The dash between subject and predicate
When a dash goes between subject and predicate and when it does not, with notebook examples.
Table · Grade 8
Agreement of predicate with subject
When the predicate is singular, when plural, and when both are possible.
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.
Table · Grade 8
One-member sentences
Five kinds of one-member sentences: what the main member is and what it means.
