Russian Cases in Real Sentences Workbook

A 152-page Russian cases workbook for English-speaking adult learners, with 440 structured tasks for choosing, forming and using cases in complete sentences.

This structured Russian grammar resource helps learners move from understanding case rules to selecting and producing the correct case in meaningful Russian sentences.

Rather than practising endings in isolation, the workbook uses a decision-first approach. Learners identify the relationship being expressed, choose the appropriate case, build the required word form, connect the elements of the phrase and finally produce complete sentences.

The practice system follows six recurring processes: NOTICE, DECIDE, CHANGE, CONNECT, PRODUCE and RETRIEVE. Learners first identify relevant signals, then make case decisions from meaning or grammatical triggers before working with morphology. The workbook also encourages learners to distinguish case-selection errors from errors involving endings.

The resource develops practice with Russian case relationships including direct objects, static location and destination, origin, possession, purpose and absence, recipients, companions and spatial relationships, and topics. Learners work with the accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental and prepositional cases, with the nominative used as a control and comparison form.

Practice also incorporates adjective and noun agreement, animacy, prepositions, pronouns and number. The vocabulary is deliberately controlled and recycled around practical adult contexts such as work, travel, people, documents, books, places, meetings and everyday objects.

The workbook progresses through eight stages (A-H). Early stages introduce relationships and controlled single-pattern practice. Later stages require learners to distinguish competing meanings, connect multiple grammatical features, complete mixed checkpoints without case labels, retrieve earlier decisions after a delay and ultimately produce original sentences from meaning.

The resource contains 152 pages and 440 registered tasks. Practice is presented in standard Cyrillic with no transliteration, making it appropriate for learners who can already read the Russian alphabet rather than absolute beginners who still require transliteration support.

Suitable for adult independent study, tutoring, one-to-one Russian teaching and structured grammar practice. The resource is particularly useful when the learning objective is not simply recognising case rules, but choosing and applying the appropriate Russian case within complete sentences.

Included formats:
A4 PDF – 152 pages
US Letter PDF – 152 pages

The A4 and US Letter files contain the same workbook content in two page sizes for convenient printing or PDF-based study.