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A BasicModernRussianGrammar Eugenia Nekrasova R u s s i a n F r e s h f r o m R u s s i a Ron Maxim , Director,Government Cargo Support Services, Maersk Sealand, Atlanta, GA, USA: ...Mrs.Nekrasova`s book is very creative... Frederick Lyons , Resident Representative,United Nations Development Programme in the Russian Federation This book very definitely helped me improve my Russian fluency.With good humour and strong didactic principles it leads through thedifficulties of the Russian Grammar. Markku Lehto , Chief of Moscow Bureauof the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Finland The book is really very helpful. The explanations given in thebook are clear and inventive. The teaching materials have been verywell sorted. To the Readers This book is meant both for the learners and the teachers of Russian.The name of the book speaks for itself: A Basic Modern Russian Grammar .The attention is focused on the facts of Modern Russian language which arebasic, of high frequency and in common use. As most of the learners are not professional linguists the author tried to avoidunnecessary linguistic terms.The explanations, charts and presentation of grammar material enable thelearners of Russian understand some practical mechanisms of the languagein a certain logical order .The teachers of Russian can use it in their practical work. All the charts srcinally belong to the author.The author expresses her deep gratitude to Mr D. Pobedimsky without whomthe book would not have succeeded and to Prof. T. Wade (UK) for his encour-agement. I wish you success,Eugenia Nekrasova © A Basic Modern Russian Grammar, Eugenia Nekrasova,1997. © Graphic Design, eBook publisher, Dmitry Pobedimsky, 2002.ISBN 5-85550-119-1 Shortly about the Author Eugenia Nekrasova , Moscow, Russia.M.A. in Philology and Education, Moscow State University.For many years she has been working as a full-time senior teacher and lecturer for the USSR / Russian Federation Minis-try of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Language Service, teachingRussian, English and related subjects to foreign diplomats,businessmen and journalists, including the staff of the United Nations Moscowoffice, Sea Land CIS Logistics, Caterpillar Overseas, Ernst & Young, the StateFinnish Radio & TV Moscow office and many others.Now she divides her time between teaching and writing books on language.She has written five successful books on learning Modern Russian as a SecondLanguage and on learning English for people speaking Russian: 1. A Basic Modern Russian Grammar - 380 pages, Gummerus , Helsinki,Finland, 1998. Published in Finnish, translated from English. ISBN 951-20-5264-4 2. Exercises in Basic Modern Russian Grammar - 250 pages, Gummerus , Helsinki, Finland, 2000. Published in Finnish, translated from Eng-lish. ISBN 951-20-5507-4 3. Living & Working in the Former USSR - 211 pages, colour illustrated,succesfully practised course book of Modern Russian, best used for crash-courses. ISBN 5-85550-121-3 4. Popular English Grammar - 400 pages, Slavyansky Dom Knigi Publish-ers, Moscow, Russia,1999. First print - 25,000 copies. ISBN 5-93220-001-4 5. English for Work and Travel - 360 pages, Slavyansky Dom Knigi Pub-lishers, Moscow, Russia, 2000, with D.Pobedimsky. First print - 15,000 copies.ISBN 5-93220-052-9The author would gladly accept any comments on the bookemail:
[email protected] A Basic Modern Russian GrammarPart 1 T h e G e n d e r A g r e e m e n t o f R u s s i a n N o u n s i n t h e S i n g u l a r page 1 E u g e n i a N e k r a s o v a The characterizing words can be: adjectives, adjectival pronouns (possessive, demonstrative etc), ordinal numerals, long participles, cardinal numeral «one».You will learn: how to establish the Gender of a noun and how to make the Singular form Gender Agreement between nounsand words characterizing them. AGREEMENT BETWEEN WORDS IN RUSSIAN There are 2 main types of relations between the words in a Russiansentence: Agreement and Governing .Agreement could be in Gender, Number and Person. Part 1 The Gender Agreement of Russian Nounsin the Singular between the nouns/personal pronouns and the short participles /short adjectives, between the nouns/personal pronouns and the verbs in the Pasttense form.Part 1 deals with the first five types of Gender Agreement. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER AGREEMENT Agreement in Gender takes place: between the long adjectives and the nouns, between the adjectival pronouns and the nouns, between the ordinal numerals and the nouns, between the cardinal numeral «one» and nouns, between the long participles and the nouns, Part 1 covers the problems of Gender Agreement between nouns andwords preceding them in units. I called the words preceeding nouns inunits - the characterizing words .
