Hoax: the input you have provided me with recently is invaluable.

Боб Уайтман: Hoax is probably right that the majority of beginners won't greatly benefit from being bombarded with such a myriad of grammatical rules. However, I personally find your style and the above post to be very helpful. Your explanations suit my individual style of learning very well and out of every thread I create I find myself hoping that Боб Уайтман has provided another one of his fantastic and complete explanations!

I have covered two complete Russian grammar books quite thoroughly and am reading intermediate/advanced level texts. However, due to a lack of practice in speaking, listening and writing, my ability to create correct Russian is still very limited. I have a solid foundation of passive knowledge that I now need to activate. Practicing writing and speaking and making (some daft) mistakes, I feel, is what is going to achieve this goal. Having immediately relevant grammatical issues corrected and explained to me reinforces and activates rules I am already familiar with.