Russian A Practical Grammar With Exercises – I. M. Pulkina – Multilingual Yabancı Dil Yayınları

This book is intended for students who have already learned the fundamentals of Russian: the structure of the simple sentence, the types of relationship between the words in an sentence, and the basic rules of conjugation and declension.Students of Russian will find here a brief exposition of the material they have already studied which will prove useful both for revision purposes and for improving speaking skills.Attention has been paid mainly to those themes which usually prove to be the most difficult for non-Russians: the meanings and uses of the cases, the productive and nonproductive types of Russian verbs, the verb aspects, verbs of motion, the use of pronouns, and the meanings and uses of conjunctions and conjunctive words in compound and complex sentences.The book contains a large number of drill exercises designed to help the student acquire practical mastery of Russian.As a rule, the examples in the explanations and the firs exercises designed to promote the assimilation of a particular grammar rule are based on simple everday vocabulary to make them easier for the student to understand: however, in exercises in observation sentences and whole passages from modern Russian fiction have been included to acquaint the student with Russian as it is spoken today.(Önsöz'den)