At school, several classes are always devoted to the accusative case, which causes the most serious difficulties for students. It is not surprising that adults often make mistakes using the accusative case. So it's worth sorting out this topic.
The accusative case is one of the 6 main cases of the Russian language and, as a rule, is used in the pair "transitive verb + noun". What does this mean? This means that the noun in the accusative case experiences some kind of action aimed at it from the side of the noun or pronoun that performs the function of the subject. A simple and understandable example is “I love mom (dad, cat, sausages, porridge, music, flowers, etc.).” The subject, that is, the protagonist, in this case is the pronoun “I”. The direct complement expressed by the noun following the verb experiences the action of the subject - love. And this direct addition will always be used in the accusative case.
Checking this is quite easy: firstly, you can recall the questions of cases,
the accuser answers “who? what?”, secondly, to follow the endings, substituting instead of the addition in ambiguous cases the nouns of 1 declension - mom, dad, fox, etc. All of them will give the ending "y".
The accusative case in the Russian language is often a source of errors, especially in colloquial speech, it is replaced by the genitive, dative, nominative and even prepositional case. Very often, verbs require the use of a nominal direct addition, but mistakes slip anyway, therefore, studying the topic of how to use the accusative case correctly must be combined with the topic of building phrases and the peculiarities of the verb + noun pair.
There is also the possibility of finding an accusative case in sentences that indicate temporary concepts, for example, “work all week”, “get up every hour”, “rewrite notes all night”. In the latter case, both nouns are used in the accusative case, so care should be taken when analyzing such sentences.
If the form of the noun is very similar to the nominative case, but this noun is not subject, you can do a grammatical analysis of the sentence to make sure that the noun is used in the accusative case.
If there are doubts about the correct declension of the noun after
some verb, you should look into the dictionary and check which case you want to use. For example, verbs such as “slow down,” “inspire,” “report,” “send,” “put on,” and so on.
There are still some differences in the declension of animate and inanimate nouns. For example, "wait for the letter" and "wait for the father." In the first case, the case will be genitive, and in the second - accusative. This is easy to verify by asking questions from the verb to the complement. So the substitution of nouns related to the first declension is still not a panacea. There are several ways to check yourself.
And the best way to become a literate person and practically avoid mistakes is to read good literature in large quantities.