Unit quiz: Reading written Russian closely: argument, register, subjectless sentences and compressed clauses

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Question 1

You are handed a Russian paragraph that begins with a factual sentence and then contains Однако, во-первых and поэтому. You have twenty minutes and one reading. What order of operations gives you the argument rather than a paraphrase of the wording?Scan for the connective signals first and label each sentence as claim, support, concession or conclusion, then translate, then check who owns each part.Translate every sentence in sequence and identify the claim as the longest sentence in the paragraph.

Question 2

You have to say the content of the written sentence Строительство нового моста было завершено досрочно aloud, in conversation. Which version is the correct register flip?Мост был завершён досрочно - drop the verbal noun and keep the short participle, since participles are grammatical in both registers.Мост построили досрочно - the verbal noun and the short participle give way to one third-plural finite verb.

Question 3

A paragraph contains Магнитофон сломан and two sentences later Магнитофон сломали. What is the reading difference between the two forms?Сломан states a present condition with no agent implied; сломали implies unnamed people who acted.Сломан attributes the damage to a specific named repairer; сломали states a permanent property of the object.

Question 4

You meet the form предложения in a sentence and cannot tell whether it is a verbal noun or a past passive participle. Which diagnostic settles it, and on what evidence?Inspect the position: a form before a genitive noun is a participle, and a form after a preposition is a verbal noun.Inspect the stem and ending: the noun is neuter with a single -н- and keeps -и- after -н-, while the participle has -нн- and adjective endings.

Question 5

A manual gives Помешивайте каждые пять минут where the previous step was Добавьте соль. Which statement correctly explains the two aspect choices?Добавьте is perfective for one bounded step, and помешивайте is imperfective because the stirring is an activity to be kept going at intervals.Both are imperfective instructions, and длина is the only difference: the longer form is used for steps that take longer.

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