LESSON 34 ACCENTS (1) The accents were used originally to give the correct pitch or tone to a syllable. There are three—the acute (ʹ), the grave ( ̀), the circumflex ( ̂). The acute stands only on one of the last three syllables of a word, the circumflex only on one of the last two, the grave only on the last. An accent is marked only on vowels; in diphthongs on the second vowel, as in οὕτως, οὐ̂ν.The acute and the grave are put after the aspirate or breathing, whether the rough breathing ( ̔),