How foreigners learn Russian! It all started with my question about why no comma was needed here: “One can only assess its quality by seeing it personally”. Turns out there are as many as seven exceptional rules, which I learned about for the first time today. In several examples, I would have placed a comma. And I thought I knew Russian…
http://writercenter.ru/blog/grammar/deeprichastnye-oboroty-kotorye-ne-obosobljajutsja.html
