Tatiana Filosofova is a Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of North Texas, USA. She teaches all core Russian language classes to undergraduate students at all levels and courses on Russian folklore and Russian culture. Her publications include a monograph on Russian folk poetry, a Russian textbook and more than 20 articles on both the methodology of teaching Russian and Russian folklore.

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Glossary of grammatical terms

1. Introduction
2. Nouns: animate and inanimate nouns and gender
3. Nouns: number
4. Nouns: the concept of cases and the principle of noun declension
5. Nouns: nominative case
6. Nouns: accusative case
7. Nouns: genitive case
8. Nouns: dative case
9. Nouns: instrumental case
10. Nouns: prepositional case
11. Adjectives
12. Adjectives: comparative, superlative and short- and long-form adjectives
13. Adverbs
14. Pronouns
15. Numbers
16. Verbs
17. Verbs: present tense
18. Verbs: past tense
19. Verbs: future tense
20. Verbs: verbal aspect
21. Verbs: transitive and intransitive verbs, active and passive voice
22. Verbs: mood
23. Reflexive verbs
24. Verbs of motion: introduction; verbs of motion without prefixes
25. Verbs of motion: verbs of motion with prefixes
26. Participles
27. Gerunds
28. Prepositions
29. Conjunctions and particles
30. Impersonal sentences
31. Essentials of syntax

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Index