A double consonant at the root of the word occurs in foreign borrowings and words of primordially Russian origin. Rules and examples are presented in the article.

Double "ж"

A double consonant at the root of a word is written in words such as burning, yeast, hum, juniper. But one should not confuse such cases with a combination of sounds "ж" and "з". Example:

1. Every evening a huge German shepherd ran out to meet him and was taken unnaturally and mournfully screech.
2. Come it became more difficult for him, because the driver of the only bus in this city ignored the schedule, posted at the bus stop.
3. In the courtyard of his house is dark, only a light that is barely visible shaves from the window of the wing, illuminates the road.
4. The teacher went into the audience and first posted a diagram above the board cerebellum.

Double s

Double consonants "ss" are written in such words as cash, assorted, passenger, cassette, class, compromise. Writing these lexical units should be remembered. This doubled consonant at the root of the word is written in foreign borrowings. Except for the token quarrel and words that are cognate with it. Examples:

1. To her old age her character deteriorated to such an extent that she managed quarrel with all relatives.
2. The quarreled on that day the neighbors did not spend their energy on scandals, but almost three years remained completely silent, as if a cold war had been declared between them.

Double "c" is also written in words such as poetess, stewardess.

Complex words

Doubled consonant letters are written in words formed from two parts. But only in the event that the first ends with the same consonant, with which the second begins. Examples: maternity hospital, head physician.

If in a compounded word the first part is formed from a lexical unit in which there is a double consonant, only one is written. Examples:

1. In the old shed that was behind the house, more than a hundred records, issued a hundred years ago, a pair of staked chairs and other unnecessary junk.
2. Three people entered the office, one of whom introduced himself groping. The posts of others sounded as mysterious.
3. The writer was in the past a soldier, and for how honestly he portrayed the class struggle he witnessed, in 1938 he was shot, calling him a traitor to his homeland.

Names

With the doubled consonants, the complete forms of some names are written. Diminutive forms - with one consonant. Examples:

1. Younger daughter - Alka - was a child restless and overly curious.
2. Cyril grew up quickly and increasingly asked uncomfortable questions for parents.
3. Anka was a simple, peasant-like woman.

In the examples above, there are names with doubled consonants: Alla, Cyril, Anna. Writing full and diminutive forms is different.

Adjectives

In words that are formed from nouns, the double consonant in the root of the word is preserved and written just before the suffix. Examples:

1. Parents are used to five-point system and for a long time could not figure out whether to praise or punish his son for the fact that in his diary, next to the teacher's signature, there were figures "6", "7" and "8".
2. All these tribes united in the so-calledth Hunnic union.
3. He did not like to debate, and, if possible, tried to accept compromise decision.

The same can be said about the diminutive form of the noun. Examples:

1. The cemetery, on which the figures of Soviet and Russian culture rest, the foreigners left. Remained only cluster sedentary, but inquisitive Japanese.
2. He did not like the play, and therefore during the first act he looked tiredly at program and thought about his.
3. Telegram - and so it is possible to name the message of such frivolous content - brought to the evening a tired and, as always, an annoyed postman.

At the junction of the root and the attachment

Nouns in which the prefix ends with the same letter that the root begins with are also written with doubled consonants. Examples:

1. At his proclamations for a long time no one paid attention, and so he had to step down from the rostrum.
2. Forge His father's signature he learned in the third grade.
3. Pedagogical outlook this teacher had nothing in common with the theories of Makarenko and Soroka-Rosinsky.

Borrowings

Writing words of foreign origin with doubled consonants should be remembered. Examples:

1. Vikenty Timofeevich held the post collegiate assessor.
2. Oxygen cylinders banned the use of both at home and in offices.
3. On apron He met her husband and was suddenly afraid that the journey, which had been planned for so long, would fail.
4. The Boardwalk terrace was covered with a thin layer of early clean snow.
5. Idyll, reigned in their house for almost five years, as it turned out, was imaginary.

One consonant

There are words in Russian, in which it is often mistaken to write doubled consonants. Perhaps the whole point is that these lexical units, as a rule, have a foreign origin. For example: balustrade, dealer, vernissage, amateur.</ em </ p>