In the article the problem of necessity of inclusion in manuals on Russian as foreign language theoretical explanations of a grammatical material is considered, the expediency of this inclusion is marked, and also ways of presentation of a grammatical material are analyzed.
Potentiality of teaching foreign students to express semantics of an interrogation in a more effective way at the initial stage of training Russian as a foreign language is considered in this article. To gain aim it is offered to use principles of the functional grammar that represents the language as a system of functional – semantic fields, and an attempt of adaptation of the field of an interrogation (which is a part of a functional – semantic field of communicative installation) for the initial stage of training has been made. The importance of correct intonation to express and understand a question is also emphasized in this paper.
