Backstroke has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
# | Sentence | |
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1. | No matter how hard I practiced, I wasn't able to do the backstroke. | |
2. | "Waitress, what's this fly doing in my soup?" "Looks to me to be backstroke, sir!" | |
3. | I can do breaststroke but not backstroke. |