How does the grammatical gender of nouns impact agreement rules in complex sentences, beyond simple adjective agreement?

Beyond simple adjective agreement, the grammatical gender of nouns in Russian significantly impacts agreement rules in complex sentences, influencing verb forms in the past tense and the agreement of pronouns and possessive adjectives with their referents. In the past tense, verbs agree in gender and number with the subject. If the subject is a masculine noun, the verb takes the masculine form; if feminine, the feminine form; and if neuter, the neuter form. For example, 'Он читал книгу' (On chital ....