Begin has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. | |
| 2. | Instrument testing will begin in early September and last approximately four weeks, after which Parker Solar Probe can begin science operations. | |
| 3. | "Begin when you want." "But it's your turn to begin." | |
| 4. | Inwardly the Second Men differed from the earlier species in that they had shed most of those primitive relics which had hampered the First Men more than was realized. Not only were they free of appendix, tonsils and other useless excrescences, but also their whole structure was more firmly knit into unity. Their chemical organization was such that their tissues were kept in better repair. Their teeth, though proportionately small and few, were almost completely immune from caries. Such was their glandular equipment that puberty did not begin till twenty; and not till they were fifty did they reach maturity. At about one hundred and ninety their powers began to fail, and after a few years of contemplative retirement they almost invariably died before true senility could begin. | |
| 5. | Class doesn't begin until eight-thirty. | |
| 6. | To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. | |
| 7. | You may as well begin at once. | |
| 8. | When did you begin studying English? | |
| 9. | Once you begin, you must continue. | |
| 10. | When did you begin learning German? |