Learn Russian: Гончар сушит новые изделия внутри старой мастерской. - The potter dries the new products inside the old workshop.

Гончар сушит новые изделия внутри старой мастерской.

The potter dries the new products inside the old workshop.

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Questions & Answers about Гончар сушит новые изделия внутри старой мастерской.

We are currently learning adverbs like по-старому. How would the sentence change if we used it here?

The adjective старой describes the noun мастерской (the workshop itself is old). The adverb по-старому means 'in the old way' and describes an action. If the potter dried the products in the old-fashioned way, you would drop the adjective and say: Гончар сушит изделия по-старому внутри мастерской.

Why does the word for workshop (мастерская) end in -ой here?

The preposition внутри (inside) requires the genitive case. The word мастерская is an adjectival noun, meaning it declines exactly like an adjective. In the genitive case, the feminine ending -ая changes to -ой, giving us внутри старой мастерской.

Why doesn't the direct object новые изделия change its ending for the accusative case?

Изделие (product or item) is an inanimate neuter noun. For inanimate neuter and masculine nouns, the accusative plural form is identical to the nominative plural. Since the potter is acting upon them, they are in the accusative case here, even though the endings look exactly like the nominative case.

Can I use the perfective verb высушит instead of сушит to mean 'dries'?