Use of written accent marks in Spanish Accent marks are in Spanish for two different purposes: ➢ to indicate where the stress or emphasis falls on a word when it is pronounced, ➢ and to help differentiate between identically spelled words. They are only used over vowels (á, é, í, ó, ú), and are written as a short diagonal line, from upper right to lower left. A. The following rules regarding written accents assume you know on which syllable of a word the stress occurs. An…
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