Schoolchildren to help: according to the contract or contract?

The study of the Russian language begins for you and me from the first grade of a comprehensive school and never ends. With almost every person (regardless of their literacy level) quite often there are embarrassing and doubtful situations when he does not know or is not sure whether he spelled the word correctly, put a punctuation mark, are all the stresses in place in his oral speech, etc. This is an absolutely normal occurrence.

In contrast to our common “doubt” in our own knowledge of our native language, it is worth noting that we do not know any science as well as language. Does the same number of people daily doubt their knowledge of geography or physics? And this does not come from the fact that everyone in these school disciplines has only excellent marks. The fact is that language is the same moving creature as we are: it develops, is updated and requires the repetition of binding norms that we have forgotten.

One of the difficult norms for our memorization is the norm of control in the language. Let us dwell in more detail on our own mistakes in this area and correct them, and we will help school graduates with at least one task in the USE test.

Management with a pretext on an example: according to the contract or contract?

This example of frequent doubt must be resolved once and for all. Someone claims that the first option is considered correct, someone stands behind the second one, there are those who think about the double norm of the language. Doubt, how to say - “according to the contract” or “contract”, removes the knowledge of the rules in the Russian language.

First of all, you need to remember the school rule (look for it on the pages of the Russian language textbook for grade 3). The great Russian literature and the examples of clericalism of the 18th century, in which the ending "a" was adopted, are confused by many. This rule has long ceased to be valid, and confusion (according to the contract or contract?) Remained.

Correlation of case and preposition

The prepositions “thanks”, “contrary”, “after”, “to”, “towards”, “contrary”, “like”, “towards”, “according to”, “respectively”, “proportionately” and require a preposition etc.

Next, you and I need to recall the question that needs to be asked to the word "contract" in the dative case: "to whom?", "What?"

The word "contract" has the following characteristics:

• masculine gender;
• ends with a consonant.

Therefore, this word is declined according to table 2 declension.

Nominal: (what?) Contract.

Genitive: (what?) Of the contract.

Dative: (what?) To the contract.

Accusative: (what?) Contract.

Proper: (by what?) By agreement.

Prepositional: (about what?) About the contract.

So, the form of the word in the dative case that interests us has the ending "y".

There are still doubts about how to write: “according to the contract” or “contract”? There are no border options. There is only one correct answer.

Check the table of the second declension in the textbook for the 3rd grade in the Russian language. According to the contract or contract? The correct option is with the ending "y".

But this is not all the difficulties with the same noun and its control.

Verb Management

In the phrase "conclude a contract" almost no one is mistaken.

Difficulties arise most often with the plural of this noun.

According to the rule of the Russian language, the combination of a verb with a noun in control requires an accusative case. This is clearly understood even from the singular of the example given. It remains to find out the correct form of the accusative plural of this word and have a clear idea of ​​how to say “conclude agreements” or “agreements”.

All masculine words ending in P in the accusative plural have the ending "s" / "and".

Be careful not to make ridiculous mistakes in words like: “contracts”, “tractors”, “elections”, “locksmiths”, etc.

This is not all the difficulties that have to be overcome with these very “treaties” in his speech.

With the management sorted out, now to word forms.

Plural Word Form

And here, of course, the dilemma immediately arises: “treaties” or “treaties” - how right?

The statement that both options are acceptable and that at some jargon level this norm is acceptable is an absolute lie.

Open any dictionary (explanatory, spelling - it doesn’t matter), find the dictionary entry on the contract. Immediately behind the singular form in brackets is a note: "pl., S." This mark is limited to this. And it means that in the plural there can only be an ending "s".

Thus, do not hesitate to write and say “conclude labor contracts” or “contracts”. The only true option: "contracts."

After such a detailed analysis with the word "contract" there simply should not be any difficulties, but it’s worthwhile to check yourself.

Mini test to verify knowledge gained

Questions:

1. Do contrary to contract or contract?
2. Terminate contracts or contracts?
3. Do you need contracts or contracts?

Answers:

1. To the contract.
2. Treaties.
3. Treaties.

Did all the answers match? Then there are no more questions to the contracts? What about stress?

Accent in the word "contract"

For many centuries, dictionaries have allowed only one pronunciation variant: emphasis on the last syllable in the singular form and on the penultimate syllable in the plural form. That is, right: AGREEMENT AND AGREEMENTS. It always turns out on the last O.