Cumulative level test: Cases in real sentences, verb aspect, and narrating time

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Question 1

A feminine speaker reports that yesterday she saw Anna and read the book. Three endings must be chosen independently: the object Анна, the object книга, and the past verb. Analyse which word controls each ending, and explain why superficially similar endings do not share a single rule.я controls the verb, so the past form is читала; both noun objects are feminine -а nouns, whose accusative ending is -у whatever their animacy, giving Анну and книгу.All three take -у because every feminine word in the sentence receives the same feminine ending.

Question 2

One message says you are at the university and the next says you are walking to the university. The same preposition в appears in both. State the case each phrase requires and explain what carries the difference for your reader.Both phrases take the accusative, because в always marks movement toward something.The location takes the prepositional and the destination takes the accusative; the noun ending, not the preposition, carries the distinction.

Question 3

You report that a letter arrived from Moscow and that a parcel is intended for Anna. Choose the two prepositions and the case each requires, then explain the reasoning that keeps them from being confused with their near neighbours от and the dative.Из plus the genitive Москвы marks a place source, and для plus the genitive Анны marks a beneficiary.От plus the genitive Москвы marks the source, and the dative Анне marks the beneficiary.

Question 4

Your supply list must deny one notebook, deny several notebooks, and deny available time. Give the three phrases and explain what changes across them, using the noun's class and the kind of thing being denied.Нет тетради for all three, because нет always takes the genitive singular.Нет тетради for one notebook, нет тетрадей for several, and нет времени for time, which stays singular as a mass noun.

Question 5

Analyse Вчера я купила книгу для Анны в магазине около дома. Name the case of each noun phrase and identify the word that selected it, then state which parts are agreement rather than case.Я is the subject, купила agrees with it in feminine past, книгу is the verb's accusative object, для selected the genitive Анны, в selected the prepositional магазине as a setting, and около selected the genitive дома.Every noun phrase after the verb is genitive, because Russian marks all non-subject phrases with the genitive in long sentences.

Question 6

A learner claims that any perfective partner can be produced by prefixing the imperfective verb. Give a counterexample from this level and explain the two distinct reasons the claim fails.The claim fails only for verbs of motion, because those have two imperfective forms instead of an imperfective and a perfective.Брать and взять share no root, so no prefix could produce the partner; and a prefix may change a verb's meaning instead of only its aspect.

Question 7

Why can Я сделаю это сейчас not describe an action in progress, and what would you say instead? Explain the general principle that settles the choice without reference to this particular verb.Сделать is perfective, so its non-past form refers to the future; the present requires an imperfective verb, as in Я делаю это сейчас.Сейчас cannot be used with a perfective verb, so the adverb is the reason the sentence fails.

Question 8

You report both that you were reading for two hours and that you read the article in two hours. Beyond the verb form, what changes, and how would you explain the difference to someone who thinks the two time phrases measure the same interval?Only the tense changes; both phrases measure the same interval and merely differ in formality.The phrases measure different things: a bare accusative measures how long the activity lasted, while за plus the same quantity measures how long completion took.

Question 9

In Когда я вошёл, все читали, identify the event and the background, then explain what a reader would understand differently if both verbs were perfective.Вошёл is the single event and читали is the background activity; making both perfective would present two completed incidents in sequence rather than a scene interrupted.A когда clause always supplies the background, so вошёл would have to be imperfective for the sentence to be coherent.

Question 10

Your plan states three things: you read all day yesterday, you will be reading in an hour, and you will finish the report tomorrow. Name the three constructions and justify each choice.A perfective past for yesterday, a perfective future for the reading, and буду plus a perfective infinitive for tomorrow.An imperfective past with the duration phrase, then буду plus an imperfective infinitive, then a perfective non-past form for tomorrow's result.

Question 11

A future commitment loses its endpoint, so tomorrow becomes reading time rather than a finished report. State exactly what must change in the account and what must stay as it is, with reasons.The future construction changes from a perfective non-past form to буду plus an imperfective infinitive; the object's case and any earlier past sentences stay unchanged.Every sentence in the account becomes imperfective, including the past sentences, so that the whole account presents activity rather than results.

Question 12

A learner has read this level and recognises every model but cannot produce an unaided account. What should the feedback distinguish, and what single next action should it prescribe?Recognition of the models is sufficient evidence, so the level can be marked complete without further production practice.Distinguish recognition from independent production, and prescribe retrieval practice on the specific category that failed rather than more reading.

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