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1. GENERAL RULES

1. “Stress” is different than “accent”: Stress = emphasis; accent = diacritical written mark.
2. Syllable: a combination of a consonant and one (and occasionally two or three) vowels, forming part of a word and representing a single uninterrupted sound.
3. Every word with more than one syllable in Spanish has one syllable with more stress than the rest. The same is true also for English.
4. Depending on where the stress falls, and the last letter of the word, the word may or may not require a written accent.

2. STEPS

1. Divide the word into syllables.
2. Identify if the word has only one syllable, or more than one.
3. If there is more than one syllable, identify where the stress falls – that means in what syllable: last, next-to-last, third-to-last, fourth-to-last.
4. Check the chart, and apply the rules to know if a written accent is required.