Russian Grammar Workbook

Terence Wade (1930–2005) was Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow in Russian Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He wrote 12 books, including Prepositions in Modern Russian (1985), Russian Etymological Dictionary (1996), The Russian Language Today (with Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke, 1999), and A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, third edition (revised by David Gillespie, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). David Gillespie is Professor of Russian at the University of Bath, UK, where he has taught Russian language and culture since 1985. He is the author of 8 books and more than 50 papers on modern Russian literature and film.

Preface to the First Edition xv Preface to the Second Edition xvi The Noun 1 Gender 1 First and second declensions [302, 34] 1 2 Soft-sign nouns [33] 2 3 Common gender [35] 2 4 Indeclinable nouns of foreign origin [36] 2 5 Differentiation of gender through suffixes. Professions [434] 3 6 Animals [45] 4 Declension 7 Animacy [47] 4 8 Nouns which have a plural form only [49] 5 9 First declension: masculine nouns [502] 5 10 Partitive genitive in -/- [53] 6 11 Prepositional/locative singular in -/- [54] 7 12 Special masculine plural forms [55] 7 13 First declension: neuter nouns in -o [58] 8 14 First declension: nouns in -e, -, -, - [59] 9 15 Second declension: nouns in -/- [61] 9 16 Third declension: soft-sign feminine nouns [63] 11 17 Declension of neuter nouns in - [64] 12 18 Declension of nouns in -/- [65] 12 19 and [68] 12 20 Declension of first names/surnames [6970] 13 21 Apposition in the names of publications, towns etc. [72] 13 22 Agreement of , etc. [75] 14 Case Usage 23 The nominative [77] 14 24 The accusative [79] 15 25 The genitive [802] 15 26 The partitive genitive [834] 16 27 Genitive and negative [86] 17 28 Genitive and accusative after negated verbs [87] 17 29 Verbs that take the genitive [88] 18 30 The dative as indirect object of a verb [89] 21 31 Verbs that take the dative [90] 21 32 Impersonal constructions using the dative [92] 22 33 The instrumental of function [94] 23 34 The instrumental in passive constructions [96] 23 35 Verbs that take the instrumental [99] 24 36 The instrumental of dimension [101] 24 37 The instrumental as predicate [102] 25 38 Nouns in apposition [103] 26 Revision exercises: case usage 26 The Pronoun 31 39 Personal pronouns [110] 31 40 The pronoun [113] 32 41 The pronouns and [115] 32 42 The third-person pronouns (, , , ) [116] 33 43 The Reflexive pronoun [117] 33 44 The possessive pronouns , , , [118] 34 45 The possessive pronouns , , [119] 34 46 The Reflexive possessive pronoun , , , [120] 35 47 , , , , as interrogative pronouns [1212] 35 48 , , and as relative pronouns [123] 36 49 The demonstrative pronouns and [1256] 38 50 and [131] 38 51 , , B, , [132] 39 52 [134] 39 53 [135] 40 54 and [136] 41 55 The potential negative pronouns , [137] 41 56 Indefinite pronouns with the particles -, - [138] 42 57 [141] 44 58 Other parts of speech which can also function as pronouns [143] 44 The Adjective 45 The Long Form of the Adjective 59 Mixed declension [146] 45 60 Soft-ending adjectives [147] 45 61 Formation of adjectives from nouns: the suffixes --, --and -o-/-e- [148] 46 62 Attributive use of the long adjective [155] 46 63 Use of the long adjective with predicative meaning [156] 48 Revision exercises: declension of adjectives 48 The Short Form of the Adjective 64 Endings of the short form of the adjective [159] 50 65 The mobile vowels --, -o- and -- in the masculine short form [161] 50 66 Some special short forms [162] 50 67 Short forms: pairs of opposites [168] 51 68 Adjectives of dimension [169] 51 69 Delimitation of meaning by the oblique case of a noun or pronoun [170] 52 70 Delimitation of meaning by a prepositional phrase [171] 53 Revision exercises: short-form and long-form adjectives 53 The Comparative Degree of the Adjective 71 The attributive comparative with [177] 55 72 One-word attributive compar