Glue or glue? How to write correctly? Which of us at least once did not think upon meeting this word? The most offensive is that the error in this word will not only be visible when writing, but also heard in speech. And who wants to be considered an ignoramus?
In order to correctly answer this question, let's go back to school for a lesson in the Russian language for a few minutes and remember what we know about the spelling of verb endings.
Conjugation of verbs
As our memory helpfully suggests, in order to write a vowel at the end of a verb without error, it is necessary to correctly determine its conjugation. Verbs in the Russian language refer to one of two conjugations - either to I or to II. What is conjugation?
This is a
change in the verb of the present and future tense in persons and numbers:
I pour, you pour, he (she, it) pours, we pour, you pour, they pour.
Everything is very simple when the end of the verb is in a strong position, that is, the stress falls on it: conjugation can be recognized by the end. At the end, the vowels e, y (u) - means conjugation I, and if u, a (i) - conjugation II .
Problems with writing begin when the personal ending of the verb is in a weak position, since the stress does not fall on it. What to do then?
Then we perform the following action: put the verb in the initial form, called the still indefinite form or infinitive.
Infinitive
Not all language experts agree with the name indefinite form: after all, with its help it is possible to determine the form of a verb (perfect or imperfect) and its conjugation. But we will choose the usual term.
What to do? What to do? - with the help of these questions we get an indefinite form of the verb. It is it that helps us to correctly determine the belonging of a verb to one of the two conjugations and brings us closer to the answer to the question: "Is it correct to write how to glue or glue?" So, we ask the question and put the verb in the initial form: what to do? - think what to do? - decide. Now you need to look at what the verb ends with and determine its conjugation.
We determine the conjugation of the verb
We begin with the verbs II conjugation. As we remember from the school course, this conjugation includes all verbs ending in -it , except for the verbs to lay, swell, stay up and shave (they belong to I conjugation) and 11 exception verbs that are easy to remember by memorizing, for example, poem:
Drive, hold, watch and see
Breathe, hear, hate
And to depend, and to twirl,
And offend, and endure.
In the personal endings of these verbs, only vowels and, but (a) can be written.
All other verbs say -at (dream, play), -et (get sick, get cold), -ot (stab, weed), -ut (dig, sigh), - eat (sow, cherish), - be (forget, sail ) and the 4 verbs -it mentioned above relate to I conjugation. At the end of the verbs of conjugation I, vowels e, y (s) will be written .
Remembering the necessary information, we are one step closer to deciding how to correctly: glue or glue.
How to spell the word glue
So, now we apply this knowledge in practice.
We put the word of interest to us in the initial form: what to do? To glue. Or glue, or maybe glue? Again the problem. How to spell the word glued ? In order to avoid a mistake in the spelling of a word, we turn to the most important source of literacy - the spelling dictionary. Looking into it, we know exactly how the word is written - to glue, and nothing else.
So still, glue or glue? How right?
Now we can determine the conjugation of the verb to glue . The verb ends in -it and is no exception, therefore, the answer is obvious: it refers to II conjugation. Having determined conjugation, we easily find the answer to the question of how to spell - glue or glue. We conjugate the verb to glue : I am gluing , you are gluing, it is gluing, we are gluing, you are gluing, and they are gluing . Gluing - and only that!
We proceed to the next step - consolidating the information received. For this we will use the words glue and glue in different phrases and sentences. But first, we turn our attention to the semantics of the word.
The semantic meaning of the word
Having carefully studied the explanatory dictionaries, we find two direct meanings of the word and one figurative. The first meaning of the word is to connect parts of something with glue, to glue. Glue box, package, kite. In the labor lesson, children glue from colored paper applications.
Another value is to stick, applying glue to some surface, to stick. Glue theater posters, posters, labels. Girls glue t printed photos to the album.
The figurative meaning of the word glue is used in youth slang: glue - flirt, charm, seduce. Guys glue pretty girls.
And now the workshop. Our friends bought several rolls of wallpaper for their new apartment and are ready to start work. They begin to glue the wallpaper. We shoot their actions on the camcorder, giving our comments. We think for a second: do they glue or glue the wallpaper? Then we confidently declare: "Sasha and Masha glued new wallpapers deftly and skillfully."
The importance of being literate
To be literate means to respect yourself and others. What is literacy? This, of course, is the ability to speak correctly and write without errors. It is very unpleasant to hear when your interlocutor concludes "CONTRACTS", "calls by phone," "listens to their new album". And when you read on the Internet site the lengthy arguments of some commentator about love for Russia, you struggle with the desire to ask him the only question: "If you are such a patriot, why do you write in Russian with errors?" Currently, any person has the opportunity to improve their literacy, you just want to. You just need to read more and look in dictionaries as often as possible, and the spelling dictionary should become your best friend and assistant.