The answers to these and many other specific questions on the culture of speech can be found in the manual «Correct Speech» by O. Zabolotny and V. Zabolotny (Litera LTD Publishing House).

The material is presented easily and accessible, using dialogues and vivid illustrations, many examples related to life situations are given.

The focus is on the following basics of correct speech:

Vocabulary (use of words according to their lexical meaning, as well as the rules of combining words in a sentence);

grammatical forms (literary forms of words, rules for building phrases and sentences);

pronunciation and accentuation (word stress, as well as pronunciation of vowels and consonants).

After each chapter, there are training tasks and tests (with answers), and in the appendices - dictionaries of accents and phrases.

 This book will be a reliable guide for pupils, students, teachers and anyone who wants to learn to speak Ukrainian correctly. It will also be useful for those who plan to take the External Independent Testing, as it contains many typical examples of word usage, emphasis and phrase construction.