Grasshopper has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | A grasshopper and many ants lived in a field. | |
| 2. | That's not a grasshopper. It's a locust! | |
| 3. | That's not a locust, that's a grasshopper! | |
| 4. | That's the biggest grasshopper I've ever seen. | |
| 5. | The grasshopper chirps. | |
| 6. | I love the sound this grasshopper makes! | |
| 7. | At this moment his soliloquy was interrupted by a grasshopper, which, in springing from a swallow that pursued it, fell into Chloe's bosom. | |
| 8. | The grasshopper chirped from her bosom, as if in gratitude for its deliverance, and Chloe on hearing it screamed again; whereupon Daphnis laughed, and took the little chatterer from its hiding-place. | |
| 9. | The grasshopper kept chirping in his hand. | |
| 10. | Chloe was pleased at seeing the innocent cause of her alarm, and having kissed it, she put the grasshopper in her bosom again, where it resumed its song. |