Asserted has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
# | Sentence | |
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1. | He asserted that he was innocent. | |
2. | They asserted that it was true. | |
3. | She asserted that she was right. | |
4. | What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. | |
5. | Then for many, Polemarchus—all human beings who make mistakes—it will turn out that to be just to harm friends, for their friends are bad and just to help enemies, for they are good. So we shall say the very opposite of what we asserted Simonides means. | |
6. | That can be asserted definitively. | |
7. | During questioning the accused asserted that he was temporarily unconscious and had no memory of the time when the crime was committed. | |
8. | The UK asserted its claim to the islands by establishing a naval garrison there in 1833. | |
9. | What is asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence. |