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

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INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN:

A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK

Intermediate Russian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an acces-

sible and practical grammar with related exercises in a single volume.

Using a wide variety of texts from Russian sources, Intermediate Russian

enables students to gain an insight into contemporary Russian society

and culture whilst strengthening their fluency in the language. Its 18 units

present a broad range of grammatical topics, illustrated by examples

which serve as models for the wide-ranging and varied exercises

that follow. These exercises enable the student to master the relevant

grammar points.

Features include:

• tests and exercises reflecting contemporary spoken Russian

• concise grammatical explanations

• full key to the exercises

• detailed index

Intermediate Russian, like its sister volume, Basic Russian, is ideal for

both independent study and use in class. The two books comprise a

compendium of the essentials of Russian grammar.

John Murray and Sarah Smyth are Lecturers in Russian at Trinity

College, Dublin.

Titles of related interest published by Routledge

Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook

by John Murray and Sarah Smyth

Colloquial Russian: The Complete Course for Beginners

by Svetlana Le Fleming and Susan E. Kay

Russian Learners’ Dictionary

by Nicholas Brown

INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN:

A GRAMMAR AND

WORKBOOK

John Murray and Sarah Smyth

London and New York

First published 2001

by Routledge

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Murray, John (John Damian)

Intermediate Russian: a grammar and workbook / John Murray & Sarah Smyth.

p. cm.

1. Russian language—Grammar—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Russian

language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—English. I. Smyth, Sarah. II. Title.

PG2112.M874 2000

491.782′421—dc21 00–031058

ISBN 0–415–22102–1 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–22103–X (pbk)

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.

ISBN 0-203-18430-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-18457-2 (Glassbook Format)

To Stanford and Francesca

CONTENTS

Introduction xi

Acknowledgements xiii

Sources xv

Lists of abbreviations xvii

Interacting

1 Naming, greetings and congratulating 1

Naming

Functions: greetings and congratulating

Letter etiquette

Function: пусть

2 Thanking, apologising, requesting and advising 16

Thanking

Apologising

Asking a third party to do something: просить/попросить

Giving advice: советовать/посоветовать

Phone etiquette

3 Possession, desire and making suggestions 25

Expressing possession: у меня

Expressing desire/subjunctive: чтобы

Making suggestions: modals

Verbal nouns: -ание, -ение

Inﬁnitive constructions: написать ей письмо?

Partitive genitive: налить вам водки?

4 Seeking and giving clariﬁcation 37

The interrogative: какой

Relative clauses 1: который, кто, что

Softening the question

Asking questions: ли

Indeﬁnite particles: -то and -нибудь

5 Identifying and describing people 47

Relative clauses 2: который, кто

He who/whoever: тот, кто

The interrogative and conjunction: как

6 Going places 55

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

Verbs of motion in the future: пойти and прийти

‘If’ and ‘when’ (naming conditions): когда, если, как только

Narrating

7 Keeping a diary 66

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

8 Memoirs 77

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.

9 Anecdote 90

Adverbs of time

Aspects: use of the present tense in narrative

Preﬁxed verbs of motion: выйти and уйти

Ellipsis

Word order: subject and predicate

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Punctuation: nouns in apposition

Adverbs of purpose: пойду запишусь, чтобы

The comparative degree of adjectives

Adverbs: гораздо

10 Biographical sketch 101

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

11 News items 114

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

12 Narratives in the future 124

Establishing and maintaining a relationship with one’s audience

Fractions: половина

Adverbs of purpose

Word building: -ание, -ение

Adverbs of time

Aspects

Describing

13 Adjectives 133

Adjectives: long and short form

Word building: verbs from adjectives

Adjectives: hard and soft

Adjectives: compound

Superlative degree of adjectives

Contents ix