Checkword - what is it?
A check word is a kind of related word to the one you want to check, where there is a spelling place that is not clear to you, with the help of a check word we check our doubts, and there will be no difficulties and errors when writing.
In modern Russian there is such a word as "say" or "said". We use this verb very often in our speech, but when writing, some of us may make mistakes. In order to prevent this from happening again, you need to learn the information below once and for all.
The root of the word "to say". How to check root vowel?
The root in words is the main part of the word, which contains the common meaning of all words with the same root.
The verb "say" has the letter "a" at its root, which is our test vowel. In order to check it, we need to pick up test words where our vowel would be understress, but do not forget that those test words should be similar in their lexical meaning, as well as the same root.
In this example, the root for the word "say" is "skaz".
List of test words for the word "said"
The test words for the words "say" and "said" will be the same:
- Said.
- Said.
- Say.
- They will say.
- Fairytale
- Fairy tale.
- Fabulous.
- Storyteller.
- Storyteller.
- Saying.
- Story.
- Retelling.
In fact, such a list can go on and on, since there are a lot of single-root and similar in meaning. It is clear that some experts in this matter will say that the roots are not the same, but historically all these words will be related to the root "skaz" and will serve them as test words.
For such cases, Russian language teachers have a special technique. It's called "memory". They use it so that children learn the information given to them, remember and not make mistakes in spelling. In writing such a word, children can be offered the word "fairy tale", and even then they will definitely know how to write words with the same root.
