An editorial and dictionary workflow
Mastery includes knowing which questions grammar answers and which require lexical reference.
- Use an academic spelling dictionary for established form, a modern explanatory/government dictionary for meaning and complements, a stress dictionary/audio source for pronunciation, and a corpus for contextual distribution.
| Question | Best evidence | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Which ending? | grammar + head profile | но́вому студе́нту |
| Does the word exist? | spelling/explanatory dictionary | rare derivative |
| Which complement? | government dictionary + corpus | гото́в к чему |
| Where is stress? | orthoepic/stress dictionary + audio | готова́ |
| Solid/hyphen/separate? | academic spelling dictionary | technical compound |
| Which variant is natural? | balanced corpus + genre | predicate short/long |
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3.22 · An editorial and dictionary workflow · table 1
Which ending? · grammar + head profile · но́вому студе́нтуDoes the word exist? · spelling/explanatory dictionary · rare derivativeMini-check
Where should you verify an unfamiliar compound? Why not treat raw frequency as correctness?
Apply this next
- Say the Russian examples aloud, cover the model, and retrieve the pattern once before continuing.