... familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet and should have acquired a vocabulary of about 500 words. Each unit contains a brief explanation of an area of grammar, illustrative examples of the contexts ... Unbegaun B.O., Russian Grammar, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1957 Wade, Terence, A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, Blackwell, Oxford, 1992 Course books Akushina A. A. and Formanskaya N.I., ... depends on animate/inanimate and male/female distinctions: a ‘teacher’ (animate) is referred to as ‘he’ or ‘she’, whereas a ‘book’ or a ‘bus’ (inanimate) are referred to as ‘it’. In Russian the...