As we become regular readers, as well as develop our writing aptitude, we are gradually “ornamenting” our linguistic competence. Referring to it, it means knowing the particularities that exist in the language with regard to grammatical aspects as a whole.
In the midst of the process of acquiring such skills, some recurrent questions are unavoidable, an attitude conceived as being extremely natural. Representing them, we emphasize the correct spelling of words as a relevant factor, such is the complexity that guides the linguistic facts.
And among this complexity are the so-called variant forms, which literally translate double or multiple modalities of spelling words. Evidently, despite this flexibility, there is a form that is usually more pronounced among speakers.
Given the purpose of further enriching the knowledge about this occurrence, we will analyze the best known cases:
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By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
DUARTE, Vânia Maria do Nascimento. "Spelling and its variant forms"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/a-ortografia-suas-formas-variantes.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
