"Often" as it is written - together or separately?

Nowadays, literacy has become an integral property of a successful person. If you write correctly, you are undoubtedly educated and respect the person who reads what you wrote. If mistakes are made in the letter, the attitude towards the author and the text will be appropriate.

Many questions arise when using adverbs in the text and similar in sound and spelling of nouns or adjectives with prepositions. Such a situation itself poses a mistake. Let's look at an example: for frequent or often - as it is written?

In order to prevent mistakes, we will understand what parts of speech are in front of us.

How often is spelled?

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If we have an adverb, that is, the part of speech that answers the questions “How? How often?” In the sentence, then it is written together:

People (How often?) Often do not think about how the literacy of their speech and writing affects life.

If we have an adjective with a preposition that answers the question "Which?", We write separately:

For (What?) Frequent password changes are most system administrators.

Rate of use

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Please note that the adverb “often” is the colloquial form of the adverb “often” and is mainly used with a negative connotation. Thus, using it in an official business style is undesirable.

Examples of the use of the adverb "often"

Often, how to spell one or another word, you don’t even have to think about it if you have innate literacy.

  • Children often do not have time to adapt to the rules and conditions of primary school.
  • Often, we offend our partners not even with the act itself, but with the consciousness of our rightness and unwillingness to change something for their sake.
  • Most purchases are made by a person spontaneously, and often even in an unconscious state, under the influence of a strong advertising suggestion.
  • Dissatisfaction with life is often realized by a person through apathy, poor health and constant depression.

Examples of using the adjective with the pretext "for frequent"

Our company cares about the condition of its employees and advocates for a frequent change of activity during the working day.

No need to scold for a common mistake, just explain the rule that excludes it.

Not all ministers of the church advocate a frequent, weekly confession, often turning the sacrament into a formality.

In our country, since the days of the Soviet Union, people have been condemned for frequent job changes.

Until dusk, he walked near the neighboring house, sometimes stopping and looking hopefully at a frequent fence.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/C44477/


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