Hard has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | I work hard and play hard. | |
| 2. | He's thought long and hard for this election. Very long and hard for the country he loves. | |
| 3. | You're working hard, eh. But don't push yourself too hard. | |
| 4. | Tom copied all the files on his internal hard disk to an external hard disk. | |
| 5. | This afternoon when our grandmother who is hard of hearing gets company from an even more hard of hearing girlfriend, we will try to prevent them at all cost from sitting in the garden, otherwise the whole neighbourhood will all at once know our business. | |
| 6. | Tom works very hard, but not as hard as Mary. | |
| 7. | It's hard to think of life as easy, but it's easy to think of life as hard. | |
| 8. | It's hard to get to the punchline of a joke when you're laughing so hard that you can barely breathe! | |
| 9. | Work hard, play hard. | |
| 10. | As I’ve said before, these lone actors or small cells of terrorists are very hard to detect and very hard to prevent. But across our government, at every level -- federal, state and local, military and civilian -- we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks. |