"On account" or "about": the rules of writing

We all remember from the school bench that parts of speech are divided into independent ones, which constitute the most part of our lexical stock, and service ones that help them to connect with each other. The article will deal with pretexts.

Preposition as part of speech

It would seem that prepositions, conjunctions, particles have no special difficulties. They only serve! But it is not so. When is it worth writing "on account" or "about"? Let's try to understand this difficult matter.

Ranks

The official parts of speech include prepositions, conjunctions and particles. They are small, but without them we can not do without our great Russian language. The most difficult of service is rightly considered pretexts. They have many homonymous forms with other parts of speech. For this reason, many are asking the question: "on account" or "about", "in place" or "instead of" it is necessary to write correctly. And all due to the fact that prepositions are divided into categories: non-derivatives (the most common: in, for, without) and derivatives (those that originated from other parts of speech: thanks, through, through, etc.). When we come across parts of speech that have homonyms, we are faced with the question: how to determine the correct spelling?

Let's try to find out. Here is an example: I learned about gifts for the holiday . In this case, about - the pretext. Determine this is not difficult: try to replace the word about another pretext. It's like this: I learned about the gifts . Thus, we replaced the word about the preposition "o". We conclude: the word can be replaced by the same part of speech. Before us about the role of pretext.

Now let's take another example: The client put the money in the bank account .

We see a noun bank with the preposition "on". It's not difficult to check this: we try to insert a word between the words "account" and "on".

For example: The client put money on a large bank account .

We conclude: if we have an excuse, an auxiliary word can not be inserted. When we see a noun with a preposition, it will be easy to have a definition.

Spelling of derived prepositions

In order to remember how to correctly write prepositions formed from other parts of speech, we need to know some nuances.

From the very beginning, we need to correctly put the question to the word: to find out, "into account" or "about" it is necessary to write.

By the way "about" we ask the question "about what?". In this case, we can make sure that this is an excuse. When we can put the question, for example, like this: "To what extent?" - before us is a noun with a preposition.

It should be noted that not always the official parts of speech will have a coherent spelling. Many derivative prepositions formed from nouns can be written separately. If we are interested, "about" as written, we will determine this on the issue. Here the word "for a reason" may have different variants. Here is an example: Due to bad weather, we did not leave the city . We change to the pretext "because of" - and everything becomes clear. Another example: A locksmith did not go to work because of a reasonably good one. Here is a completely different situation. The word "reason" has a definition - a weighty one. Therefore, we will no longer talk about a preposition, but a noun.

Conclusion

The Russian language is known for its unimaginable variation and complexity. Therefore, we can often observe the situation when we face the difficulty in determining the part of speech. This must be done correctly, because it depends on the correct spelling of words. Now we know how we will write - "on account" or "about". Our task is to ask the right question. When everything is done according to this algorithm, there will be no difficulties. In any case, we can refer to the dictionary, as the spelling of prepositions has a lot of exceptions. Then we will not doubt the correct spelling of this or that word.