M. : Russian, 1989. - 103 s. The book highlights the issues of communication-syntactic theory, which are fundamental to the development of the methodology: order of words and actual division of the sentence, arrangement of words in phrases, direct and reverse word order, basic word-order constructions of the Russian sentence. The analysis and interpretation of word-order errors of foreigners is given, the system of tasks and exercises is offered. The manual is intended for teachers of Russian as a foreign language, teachers of foreign languages, methodologists, philological students .