Murray John, Smyth Sarah. Intermediate Russian: Grammar and Workbook

Routledge, London and New York, 2001. - 217p.

Contents.
ntroduction.
Acknowledgements.
Sources.
Lists of abbreviations.
nteracting.
Naming, greetings and congratulating.
Naming.
Functions: greetings and congratulating.
Letter etiquette.
Function: пусть.
Thanking, apologising, requesting and advising.
Thanking.
Apologising.
Asking a third party to do something: просить/попросить.
Giving advice: советовать/посоветовать.
Phone etiquette.
Possession, desire and making suggestions.
Expressing possession: у меня.
Expressing desire/subjunctive: чтобы.
Making suggestions: modals.
erbal nouns: -ание, -ение.
nfinitive constructions: написать ей письмо?
Partitive genitive: налить вам водки?
Seeking and giving clarification.
The interrogative: какой.
Relative clauses 1: который, кто, что.
Softening the question.
Asking questions: ли.
ndefinite particles: -то and -нибудь.
dentifying and describing people.
Relative clauses 2: который, кто.
He who/whoever: тот, кто.
The interrogative and conjunction: как.
Going places.
Present tense usage of идти and ходить.
Present tense usage of ехать and ездить.
Past tense usage of идти and ходить.
Past tense usage of ехать and ездить.
erbs of motion in the future: пойти and прийти.
‘If’ and ‘when’ (naming conditions): когда, если, как только.
Narrating.
Keeping a diary.
The sequencing of events.
Adverbs of time: когда, пока/пока не.
Punctuation, co-ordinating.
Aspects of verbs.
Expressing necessity: должен.
Aspects and verbs of motion.
Prefixed verbs of motion.
Word order: subject and predicate.
Memoirs.
Lexis: принимать/принять.
Prepositions denoting the sequencing of events in time.
Structuring of discourse using adverbs of time.
Word order: там, тогда.
Sequence of tenses: reported speech, thought or perception.
Aspects: use of the present tense in a narrative.
Figurative meanings of verbs of motion.
Punctuation: parenthetic words and expressions.
Naming places and objects.
Adverbs of degree: немного, etc.
Anecdote.
Adverbs of time.
Aspects: use of the present tense in narrative.
Prefixed verbs of motion: выйти and уйти.
Ellipsis.
Word order: subject and predicate.
Punctuation: nouns in apposition.
Adverbs of purpose: пойду запишусь, чтобы.
The comparative degree of adjectives.
Adverbs: гораздо.
Biographical sketch.
Lexis: владеть.
Adverbs of time: dates.
Adverbs of cause: по, за, из.
Aspects in biographies.
Lexis: verbs commonly used to express death.
Aspects: the prefixes по- and про-.
Past passive participle (short form).
Adverbs used as predicates.
Word order: adverbs of time.
Alphabetisms.
News items.
Adverbs of time: telling the time.
Approximation and exactitude.
Adverbs: ещё, ещё не, уже.
Aspects: past imperfective.
Word order: adverbs of time and adverbs of place.
Punctuation in co-ordination and subordination: commas and.
embedded clauses.
Adverbs of cause: из-за, от.
Lexis: figurative uses of the verb приносить.
Narratives in the future.
Establishing and maintaining a relationship with one’s audience.
Fractions: половина.
Adverbs of purpose.
Word building: -ание, -ение.
Adverbs of time.
Aspects.
Describing.
Adjectives.
Adjectives: long and short form.
Word building: verbs from adjectives.
Adjectives: hard and soft.
Adjectives: compound.
Superlative degree of adjectives.
Short form neuter adjective/adverb as predicate.
Lexis: бывать.
mpersonal constructions.
Pronouns.
Structuring discourse: linking parts of speech.
The reflexive pronoun себя.
The reflexive possessive adjective свой.
The reflexive pronoun сам.
The reciprocal pronoun друг друга.
‘Any’ (любой).
‘The same’ (одно и то же).
Compound nouns and imperfective gerund.
Lexis and word building: compound nouns.
mperfective gerund.
Lexis and idioms: wearing and wears.
Aspects and perfective gerund.
Aspects in foregrounding and backgrounding.
rregular nouns.
Comparative degree of adverbs.
Perfective gerund.
Aspects in the past tense.
Negation and numerals.
Negative pronouns.
Negative adverbs: некогда/никогда.
Word building раз-/рас-.
Declension of numerals.
Participles.
Present active participle.
Past active participle.
Present participles as nouns.
Present participles as adjectives.
Key to exercises.
Index.