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spelling accents

undoubtedly are king as far as spelling is concerned. And the accents spelling or accents are so discreet that many times, both in schools and in everyday life, and even in professional environments, are forgotten, ignored, neglected, or simply prefer not to fear them to mess up .

accents And it can also happen to be the most complicated. Although most people can easily recognize the stressed syllable, the real problem is the rules that say when to tick the tick and when no.

Some languages \u200b\u200bare completely unaware of the orthographic accent: for example, English or Latin. Others, like French, are more complicated than ours, they have various accents. Our system is actually quite simple after you learn some basic rules, and we understand the logic behind them.

Among other things, the orthographic accent rules are for economy: they are designed to not have to tick all the words, but fewer of them. This is very good when we examine the three more general rules of accentuation spelling:

1. The sharp words are once again described as end in N, S or vocal.
2. serious words (or flat) are once again described as NO end in N, S or vocal. The
3. sobresdrújulas proparoxytones and is always stressed.

If we examine our language, we realize that most of the words are serious, the second largest group are acute, and proparoxytone constitute the smallest group. Therefore, to establish rules for the group was taken as a serious reference, and secondly the acute group.

The most serious are the particular words that end in a vowel, or verb forms ending in N or S: home brother, book, air, read, walk, want ... etc. Therefore, to economize, the Academy decided that in such cases is not placed tilde majority.

As we can see, the rule of acute is the exact reverse of the grave: they emphasize only when end in N, S or vocal. Among the acute, the proportion of these words is not so great.

So serious words where accents are not sharp, and vice versa. As mentioned before, these two groups of words together make up most of the vocabulary of English.

What we do with the proparoxytone? To not confuse things further, the Academy decided to place them tick in all cases. However, as the proparoxytone are very few, the intention of saving the remains accents.

discuss in future editions of other rules of spelling accent.