A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation.
1 In several places the word 'the' appears with an accent mark over the 'e'.
2 Break up the following words into their syllables, and place the accent mark where it belongs in each:
3 His accent marked him as a stranger; from where, she could not say.
4 The accent marked by an asterisk resembles the lower half of a circle.
5 Short black hair, thin dark eyebrows like French accent marks , pale pale skin.
6 She'd been right; his accent marked him as a bounder.
7 His complexion and accent marked him as coming all the way from the Lanett.
8 Sometimes I think gender agreements and accent marks are Francophone curses specifically designed for my torment.
9 Accent marks in foreign words are ignored.
10 The Latin poems are reproduced as they appear in the book, except that the accent marks have been deleted.
11 Inconsistencies in the author's use of hyphens and accent marks have been left unchanged, as in the original text.
12 In Pentos his accent marked him, and once he was known for a eunuch he was despised and beaten.
13 Other accent marks are ignored.
14 "What do you want?" she demanded, her accent marking her as southern-born.
15 For any accent marks noted in the following, assume that the same accent appears with all subsequent occurrances of the word.
16 Again, it was necessary to delete the accent marks , this time accents which were recommended to be placed over the roman characters.
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