A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Blackwell Reference Grammars)

by Terence Leslie Brian Wade, Michael Holman

Release Date: June, 2000

Edition: Paperback

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To Mr Howard.D.Rowland

Howard, this is a book published in Britain by British scholars and Russians who have chosen, for reasons that would no doubt illude you, to live in the United Kingdom and not in the United States. It is rather arrogant of you to expect a book published in Britain to pander to America by writing it with the American reader in mind, hence the "Briticisms" you fix upon in your argument regarding the negative points of this work. Moreover, for your information, British English is more cultivated that the rather vulgar dialect you Yanks have turned the English language into. Perhaps you could study English as your next language.

Not bad

While this is definitly an informative book, it is more of a reference book as opposed to a book which will teach you the language with little or no Russian background. If you're already a student in Russian, this would make a good supplemtent to your studies. It is nice to have for a quick reference in the confusing or more subtle points of Russian grammar. However, if you have no background in Russian, I doubt that this book would be a good starting point.