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.