Груша лежала на столе рядом с яблоками, и моя дочь сразу выбрала именно её.

Лежала is the past tense of лежать (to lie, to be lying).

• лежит = is lying / lies (present)
• лежала = was lying / lay (past, feminine)
• была just means was, but it does not give the same physical idea of lying on a surface

So Груша лежала на столе means the pear was physically lying on the table, not just existing there.

Because груша is a feminine noun, and in the past tense Russian verbs agree with gender in the singular.

Past tense forms:

• masculine: лежал
• feminine: лежала
• neuter: лежало
• plural: лежали

Since груша is feminine, we get Груша лежала.

The same kind of agreement appears later with выбрала, because the subject there is моя дочь, which is also feminine.

Because this sentence describes location, not motion.

• на столе = on the table (where?)
• на стол = onto the table (to where?)

Russian uses:

• Prepositional case after на for location
• Accusative case after на for movement toward something

Here the pear is already there, so на столе is correct.

Яблоками is instrumental plural.

The expression рядом с means next to / beside, and с here requires the instrumental case.

So:

• яблоки = apples (nominative plural)
• яблоками = with apples / next to apples (instrumental plural in this context)

That is why the sentence has рядом с яблоками.

Because её is the correct form of the pronoun for a direct object here.

• она = she (subject form)
• её = her / it (object form for feminine nouns)

In моя дочь сразу выбрала именно её, the daughter is the subject, and the pear is the thing chosen, so Russian uses её.

Since груша is feminine, Russian refers back to it with the feminine pronoun её.

Russian pronouns reflect the grammatical gender of the noun.

Since груша is a feminine noun, the pronoun used for it is the same form that is also used for her in English-style descriptions of grammar.

So in this sentence:

• её refers to грушу
• in natural English, we translate it as it, not her

This is very normal in Russian: inanimate nouns can still be grammatically masculine, feminine, or neuter.

Именно adds emphasis. It means something like:

• exactly
• precisely
• the very one
• specifically

So выбрала именно её means not just chose it, but chose that one in particular / chose exactly that one.

It highlights that, among the apples and the pear, the daughter picked the pear specifically.

Because именно usually goes right before the word or phrase it emphasizes.

Here it emphasizes её:

• именно её = that one specifically

If you move именно, the emphasis can shift slightly. Russian word order is flexible, but placement often shows what is being highlighted.

So выбрала именно её is the natural way to say chose that one in particular.

Выбрала is the perfective past form of выбрать, while выбирала is the imperfective past form of выбирать.

• выбрала = chose, with focus on the completed result
• выбирала = was choosing / used to choose / chose repeatedly, depending on context

In this sentence, the daughter made one completed choice, so выбрала is the natural form.

Сразу means:

• immediately
• right away
• at once

So моя дочь сразу выбрала именно её means that she did not hesitate much; she picked that one right away.

It often gives the sentence a natural, conversational feeling.

Russian often uses possessive words like мой / моя / моё / мои where English would too.

• моя дочь = my daughter

Here моя agrees with дочь, which is feminine singular:

• masculine: мой
• feminine: моя
• neuter: моё
• plural: мои

You could say just дочь in some contexts if it were already obvious whose daughter you mean, but моя дочь is the normal full expression.

Yes, груша can mean either:

• pear (the fruit)
• pear tree

But context makes the meaning clear here.

Because it says:

• лежала на столе = was lying on the table
• рядом с яблоками = next to apples

it clearly means the fruit, not the tree.

No, Russian word order is fairly flexible, but the chosen order sounds natural and helps show emphasis.

This version:

• Груша лежала на столе рядом с яблоками, и моя дочь сразу выбрала именно её.

feels neutral and smooth:

1. it sets the scene
2. then it tells what happened
3. then it emphasizes the object chosen

You could rearrange parts, but the emphasis would change. For example, moving сразу or именно would slightly shift what sounds most important.

So the word order here is not the only possible one, but it is a very natural one.

Russian does not have articles like a or the.

So:

• груша can mean a pear or the pear
• столе can mean the table or just a table, depending on context

Russian relies on context, word order, and emphasis instead of articles. In this sentence, the context makes the reference clear enough without them.