cruditéé is called é accent aigü in french, or e acute in english I think you're meaning the little sign above the e, it's called accent in french Other examples of punctuation are è, ê, ù,...
Theoretically, to indicate at least some of the pauses, inflections, emphases, etc. of oral speech and/or to indicate abbreviations by an appended period, thereby alerting a reader that the term...
The apostrophe and letter "s" at the end of the word indicate possession by a single noun, the candidate. "Candidate" without the apostrophe or "s" is a single noun; if the "s" were included, but...