Assumption has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Basic to the argument is the assumption that the rules in question are present in the language. | |
| 2. | What he said bears out my assumption. | |
| 3. | Your assumption that his death was an accident seems to be wrong. | |
| 4. | She put on an assumption of ignorance. | |
| 5. | The facts don't correspond with your assumption. | |
| 6. | Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character. | |
| 7. | How much confidence exists that this assumption is correct? | |
| 8. | We can't make that assumption. | |
| 9. | Israel's security policy cannot rely on the assumption that the dictators of the Arab countries will retain power forever. | |
| 10. | That's a safe assumption. |