6 common mistakes people who consider themselves literate

Unfortunately, even the combined efforts of grammar-nazi not help everyone remember the rules of spelling "-tsya" and "-tsya." But the one who got good marks for dictation in school and never confuse "put" and "don" can sometimes prevent annoying errors when writing.

Here are the most common mistakes in the whole of competent people.

Also and takzheSputat alliance with the combination of a preposition and pronoun - not the blunder, but that it often prevents horoshist on the way to flawless spelling: many bad distinction "to" and "what if", "well" and "the same", "too, "and" the same "," though "and" though. " But, fortunately, the rules here are pretty simple.

«Also," or "too»
« He offered me a good job, also promising to bring interesting people ». = "He offered me a good job and promised to bring interesting people».

«The same" and "the same»
« You frowns just like your father ».

A similar situation with «to" and "what to» What would you do, this is for you will not »=« that is done, it will not help you »

And we must remember the phrase "not to": here "to" always written together.

Have difficulty in distinguishing between the union "though" and the preposition with a pronoun «though»
« It is beautiful, intelligent and modest, moreover, » = «and also a modest»

« She did not come on my holiday, despite the fact that I invited her three times »



Abuse of "you" with great bukvyDelo not only that treatment immediately becomes slimy shade - according to the rules of the Russian language in the texts is not addressed to a specific person, a pronoun should be written with a lowercase letter. "You" is appropriate for personal business correspondence as an expression of respect for the recipient, but a lot depends on the degree of formality of the letter: not in all cases it is necessary to lean on Shift. A tradition of abusing a capital letter came from the 90's, when Russia still budding advertisers and PR people decided that "you" gives the reader the impression that the text addressed to him personally.



"In general," It is surprising the number of people who cope even with difficult foreign background, but for some reason, poured "in general" and "general" in malovrazumitelny hybrid. The confusion apparently arose from the fact that, both a word / expression can be used to summarize and take stock. Most under the "general" mean "in general", though there is a semantic nuances:

« He helped us and saved the company - well, he's right » = he's right, because he helped us and saved the company

« It has helped us to keep the company, and in general he is right » = first, he helped us, and secondly, to keep the company, and thirdly - it anyway rights.

But there is no hard and fast rule. And even if it is difficult to understand the connotations, it is better to stay on one thing, and not to create word-mutants.



Accrued chislitelnyhNarascheniya in case endings in numerals are always written with a hyphen and are used only in the recording of ordinal numbers, which are not designated by Roman numerals. For example, "11 th grade." It is important to remember: in record numbers calendar compounding never used.

And if you follow two consecutive ordinal numbers separated by a comma or a union, accretion is used in both, but if more than one, to build the case ending is only the latter:

« participants who took the 4th, 5th and 6th places receive certificates »

Private difficulty with the designation of age - many write, for example, "5-month kitten", although the adjective accretion eaten here - you need to write at least '5-month-old. " A better word - five months.



"Pay»

A common mistake - to write "pay for anything." This is wrong: it is necessary to use either the term "payment for anything," or "pay something". These combinations just need to remember.

« Charges for travel on the subway again raised »



Confusion paronimahDopustim to distinguish "transcendent" and "transcendental" - not an easy task for those who are not interested in philosophy. But many continue to confuse and less specific Paronyms - for example, "competence" and "competence". Recall: competence - it is knowledge in a certain area, and competence - the terms of reference and the issues that anyone aware:

« The solution of this problem is not in my competence »

« your level of competence in this field is beyond doubt »

At risk are also a pair of "sensitive" and "sensitive", "desirable" and "welcome", "efficient" and "economical". For prevention is worth a look in the Dictionary - and come up with good examples for learning.





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