Verification word - what is it?
A check word is a kindred word to the one you want to check where there is a place of spelling that is not clear to you, with the help of a check word we check our doubts, and there will be no difficulties or mistakes when writing.
In modern Russian, there is such a word as “say” or “said”. We use this verb very often in our speech, but some of us may make mistakes when writing. In order to prevent this from happening again, you need to learn the information below once and for all.
The root of the word is "say." How to check the root vowel?
The root in the words is the main part of the word, which contains the general meaning of all root words.
The verb “say” contains the letter “a” at the root, which is our verifiable vowel. In order to verify it, we need to select test words where our vowel letter would be stressed, but do not forget that those test words should be similar in their lexical meaning, as well as cognate.
In this example, the root of the word “say” is “tale”.
List of test words for the word "said"
The test words for the words “say” and “said” will be the same:
- He said.
- She said.
- Will tell.
- They will say.
- Tale.
- Fairy tale.
- Fabulous.
- Storyteller.
- Storyteller.
- Statement.
- Story.
- Retelling.
In fact, such a list can be continued and continued, since there are a lot of similar-root and similar in meaning. It is clear that some experts in this matter will say that the roots are not the same, but historically all these words will be related to the root "tale" and I will serve them as test words.
For such cases, teachers of the Russian language have a special trick. It is called a little memorization. They use it so that children learn the information given to them, remember and do not make mistakes in writing. In writing such a word, children can be offered the word "fairy tale", and even then they will know exactly how to write words with the same root.