English Grammar for Students of Russian: The Study Guide for Those Learning Russian (English grammar series)

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Great book. It will help you identify what parts of English grammar you’ve forgotten because you’ve never needed to discuss it. Suddenly, in Russian class, you must identify parts of speech and tenses and so on. The understanding of our grammar is so very important in the successful learning of Russian. Russian uses its grammar to identify the function of words in a sentence. That is – the subject pronoun could appear anywhere in a sentence. The verb could, too. The adjectives could be thrown anywhere. (This happens mostly in poetry, but it’s occurred in those terribly long sentences in periodicals and books.) It’s the declension of the word that lets the reader/listener know if that word is the subject pronoun or the direct object pronoun, etc. In order to keep up with the complexity of Russian, you must know English grammar first. That way when you are trying to identify parts of a sentence, you will not be slowed down by having to figure out what the instructor is talking about when she refers to grammar “you should know” since you’ve learned it in elementary/jr. high school.BTW, I learned to speak, read and write Russian first on my own, then on an advanced level in college and grad school. I do not believe Russian is a difficult language. Teachers tend not to teach students how to learn it properly.