Punctuation – the hardest thing in the Russian language! (VIDEO)
Cases, motion verbs, stresses... You'll find that placing commas in Russian is not as tricky as it seems. The most Russian American, Tim Kirby, explains why!
In English, we have the liberal freedom to put commas whatever we like, based on our feelings.
But in Russian the Communist Party has determined where and when to use commas and the rules are ironclad like the USSR!
- Listicles,
- addressing a person,
- clarifications,
- dangling participles,
- transgressives...
They all have to be separated by commas from other words...
And there are exceptions from all the rules that you just have to remember… or get used to.
But if you use Microsoft Word and start typing in Russian, it will indicate with a blue line every word where there should be a comma after it!
And you know how to determine a Russian spy in the West? He would always put a comma before 'but'... because that's the rule you can't break in Russian. The word but always gets a comma before it.
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