About or About: Spelling Rules

We all remember from school that parts of speech are usually divided into independent, which make up most of our vocabulary, and office, helping them to connect with each other. The article will focus on pretexts.

Preposition as part of speech

It would seem that prepositions, conjunctions, particles have no special difficulties. They only serve! But it is not so. When is it worth writing “about” or “about”? Let's try to understand this difficult matter.

to the account or about

Discharges

The auxiliary parts of speech include prepositions, conjunctions, and particles. They are small, but our great Russian language cannot do without them. Prepositions are rightfully considered the most difficult of official ones. They have many homonymous forms with other parts of speech. For this reason, many are wondering: "about" or "about," "in place" or "instead of" you need to write correctly. And all due to the fact that prepositions are usually divided into categories: non-derivatives (the most common: in, for, without) and derivatives (those that came from other parts of speech: thanks, during, due, etc.). When we come across parts of speech that have homonyms, the question arises before us: how to determine the correct spelling?

Let's try to find out. Here is an example: I found out about holiday gifts . In this case, about - an excuse. It will not be difficult to determine this: we are trying to replace the word about another pretext. It turns out this way: I found out about gifts . Thus, we replaced the word about the preposition "o". We conclude: the word can be replaced by the same part of speech. Before us, he acts as an excuse.

Now let’s take another example: A client deposited money in a bank account .

We see a noun bank with the pretext "on." Checking this is not difficult: we try to insert a word between the words “score” and “on”.

For example: A client deposited money in a large bank account .

We conclude: if we have a pretext, an auxiliary word cannot be inserted. When we see a noun with a preposition, it will easily have a definition with it.

Spelling of derived prepositions

about the preposition

In order to remember how to correctly write prepositions formed from other parts of speech, we need to know some nuances.

From the very beginning, we need to correctly put the question to the word: to find out, "about" or "about" we need to write.

To the word “about” we ask the question “about what?”. In this case, we can verify that this is an excuse. When can we raise the question, for example, like this: "What account?" - before us is a noun with a preposition.

It should be noted that service parts of speech will not always have a single spelling. Many derivative prepositions derived from nouns can be written separately. If we are interested, “about” as it is written, we will determine this on the issue. Here the word “for a reason” can have different options. Here is an example: Due to bad weather, we did not leave the city . We change to the pretext "because of" - and everything becomes clear. Another example: Locksmith did not go to work because of a rather compelling reason. Here is a completely different situation. The word "reason" has a definition - weighty. Therefore, we will no longer speak of a pretext, but of a noun.

Conclusion

about how to spell

The Russian language is known for its unimaginable variation and complexity. Therefore, often we can observe a situation when we face a difficulty in determining a part of speech. This must be done correctly, since the correct spelling of words depends on it. Now we know how we will write - “about” or “about”. Our task is to ask a question correctly. When everything is done according to this algorithm, there will be no difficulties. In any case, we can turn to the dictionary, since the spelling of prepositions has a lot of exceptions. Then we will not doubt the correct spelling of a particular word.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/C2675/


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