Assertion has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | It is important to note that his assertion is groundless. | |
| 2. | Nobody will believe his assertion that he is innocent. | |
| 3. | An assertion isn't a proof. | |
| 4. | The truth value of an assertion may be a probability value. | |
| 5. | What should we deduce from Aristotle's assertion that women have fewer teeth than men: that he had small knowledge of women or that he couldn't count? | |
| 6. | Negating the assertion requires a negative augend, but all augends are products of factors on the unit interval. | |
| 7. | There is no arguing with the assertion of the great linguist Claude Hagège: never before in the history of humanity, has a language had a "comparable extension in the world to what English now has." | |
| 8. | He believed her assertion to be simply impossible and assented to the proposal. | |
| 9. | Can you prove the validity of your assertion? | |
| 10. | The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. |