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System Boundaries and Complete Mastery
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3.22 · Learn + reference
System Boundaries and Complete Mastery
Adjectives among participles, determiners, ordinals, adverbs, predicatives, and whole phrases
Adjectives among participles, determiners, ordinals, adverbs, predicatives, and whole phrases
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Module 3.21
- Estimated time
- 45 minutes
- Lesson steps
- 10
Deliberately not taught here
- Boundary: Category boundaries reflect current grammar and lexicalisation, not merely word shape. Where scholarly or dictionary analyses vary, syntactic behaviour and communicative use remain the learner's operational tests.
Small steps
What you will learn
- The adjective's place in the system Long agreement morphology is shared by several categories, so form alone does not prove 'adjective'.
- Adjective versus participle Participles combine verbal and adjectival properties: they agree like adjectives but encode action, voice, aspect, or temporal/result relations.
- Determiners and pronoun-adjectives Words such as э́тот, тот, весь, ка́ждый, мой, свой, како́й, кото́рый, and чей share agreement behaviour but organise reference, possession, quantity, or interrogation.
- Ordinal numerals Ordinals answer кото́рый? and decline like long adjectives, but their lexical function is order rather than descriptive quality.
- Adjective, adverb, or category-of-state word Forms in -о and simple comparatives can look identical across categories.
- Architecture of a complete noun phrase A phrase may contain a determiner, numeral, several adjectives, a participle, and a head noun, each contributing different information.
- Integrating predication, government, and comparison Advanced adjective sentences can combine agreement with a predicate form, a governed complement, and a comparison standard.
- An editorial and dictionary workflow Mastery includes knowing which questions grammar answers and which require lexical reference.
- Mixed error clinic Correct the earliest wrong decision in the algorithm rather than patching the final letters.
- Complete adjective-system assessment Demonstrate analysis, production, editing, and explanation across the whole course.
Mastery
Ready means you can...
- distinguish adjectives from neighbouring categories that share forms or agreement
- analyse a complete modified noun phrase from governor to head and every dependent
- integrate predication, government, comparison, derivation, and orthography
- edit and produce accurate Russian adjective constructions without relying on ending tables alone