THIS GRAMMATICAL SKETCH IS A RUSSIAN-TO-ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE APPENDIX TO B.V. MILLER'S "PERSIDSKO-RUSSKIJ SLOVAR," MOSCOW, 1953. THE FIRST SECTION PRESENTS A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE SOUND AND WRITING SYSTEMS OF MODERN PERSIAN, THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF IRAN. FOLLOWING SECTIONS DEAL WITH THE PARTS OF SPEECH AND SIMPLE, COMPOUND, AND COMPLEX SENTENCES. APPENDIX 1, AN ANALYSIS OF THE LEXICAL STRUCTURE, CONCENTRATES ON BASIC IRANIAN WORDS, AS WELL AS ARABIC AND OTHER LOAN WORDS. APPENDIX 2 LISTS THE MOST COMMON IRREGULAR VERBS. THIS 79-PAGE ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS," VOLUME 30, NUMBER 1, JANUARY 1964. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR $3.00 FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE RESEARCH CENTER IN ANTHROPOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND LINGUISTICS, RAYL HOUSE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 47401. (FB)