Da!

This fully revised second edition of Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar is a concise and contemporary reference grammar and workbook for intermediate-level students.

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.

Acknowledgements How to use this book Glossary of grammatical terms Introduction Nouns: animate and inanimate nouns and gender Nouns: number Nouns: the concept of cases and the principle of noun declension Nouns: nominative case Nouns: accusative case Nouns: genitive case Nouns: dative case Nouns: instrumental case Nouns: prepositional case Adjectives Adjectives: comparative, superlative and short- and long-form adjectives Adverbs Pronouns Numbers Verbs Verbs: present tense Verbs: past tense Verbs: future tense Verbs: verbal aspect Verbs: transitive and intransitive verbs, active and passive voice Verbs: mood Reflexive verbs Verbs of motion: introduction; verbs of motion without prefixes Verbs of motion: verbs of motion with prefixes Participles Gerunds Prepositions Conjunctions and particles Impersonal sentences Essentials of syntax Bibliography Key to exercises Index