- Paperback: 632 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 3 edition (Sep 17 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1405136391
- ISBN-13: 978-1405136396
- Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 3.4 x 23 cm
- Shipping Weight: 921 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #17 in Books > Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Russian
- #18 in Books > Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction > Russian
- #23 in Books > Reference > Foreign Languages > Russian
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"When Scottish scholar of the Russian language Wade (1930-2005) died, he was well advanced in plans but not actual work to update the grammar that had been highly successful in its 1992 and 2000 editions. David Gillespie (Russian, U. of Bath) took up the task, choosing not to try to guess what innovations Wade had in mind. Instead, he consolidated and added a few new sections, careful to preserve what he believes to be already the best Russian grammar available. Beginning with an explanation of the Cyrillic alphabet and pronunciation, it works through all the parts of speech to word order." (Reference and Research Book News, February 2011)
Book Description
The third edition of Terence Wade’s A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, newly updated and revised, offers the definitive guide to current Russian usage.
- Provides the most complete, accurate and authoritative English language reference grammar of Russian available on the market
- Includes up-to-date material from a wide range of literary and non-literary sources, including Russian government websites
- Features a comprehensive approach to grammar exposition
- Retains the accessible yet comprehensive coverage of the previous edition while adding updated examples and illustrations, as well as insights into several new developments in Russian language usage since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not advanced enough.,
This review is from: A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Paperback)
What no one has mentioned here yet is that there is a grammar workbook by the same author that acts as a companion to this grammar book. This was a recommended work when I was doing a degree in Russian. It is a good and thourough work on the Russian language that you will, undoubtedly, find useful. However, I think that there are some sections that really need more detail. First of all the (painful!) verbs of motion need more clarification and explanation in relation to the variations used by Russian speakers. There have been whole books written on verbs of motion so the little that has been devoted to it here is not enough in my opinion. There have been times in my own interaction with Russians when I have been corrected in my use of a verb of motion even though what I said was grammatically correct. We need to know when and where to use them. Secondly, the section on perfectives and imperfectives and the way affixes are used is just not advanced and thourough enough. If you are going to spend your money on a grammar book you want the full story, don't you? Examples used tend to be from Soviet/Russian press, which is Ok, but also from authors such as Chekhov. I think it would be better to stick to modern sources as much as possible instead of gining readers the idea that what they may be learning might be older style Russian. I think that all the examples will be perfectly OK in modern Russian, but I think you should consider the impression you give readers as well as the actual information. Still, a good book and a good combination if used with the grammar book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad,
By Michael J. Dudrich (Middletown, Pennsylvania United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Paperback)
While this is definitly an informative book, it is more of a reference book as opposed to a book which will teach you the language with little or no Russian background. If you're already a student in Russian, this would make a good supplemtent to your studies. It is nice to have for a quick reference in the confusing or more subtle points of Russian grammar. However, if you have no background in Russian, I doubt that this book would be a good starting point.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
To Mr Howard.D.Rowland,
This review is from: A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Paperback)
Howard, this is a book published in Britain by British scholars and Russians who have chosen, for reasons that would no doubt illude you, to live in the United Kingdom and not in the United States. It is rather arrogant of you to expect a book published in Britain to pander to America by writing it with the American reader in mind, hence the "Briticisms" you fix upon in your argument regarding the negative points of this work. Moreover, for your information, British English is more cultivated that the rather vulgar dialect you Yanks have turned the English language into. Perhaps you could study English as your next language.
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