Take has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Don't worry, the directions are simple. Just drive two blocks, take a left, drive five blocks, take a right, drive two blocks, take another right, drive three blocks, take a right again, drive one block, take a left, drive three blocks, take a right, drive three blocks, take another right, drive a block, realize that you're exactly where you were before and that all this previous instruction was completely pointless, and drive one more block in that direction. Got that? | |
| 2. | You take my house when you do take the prop, that doth sustain my house; you take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live. | |
| 3. | If something good happens, take a trip to celebrate. If something bad happens, take a trip to forget. If nothing happens, take a trip to make something happen. | |
| 4. | So she went on farther into the country, and she came to a place where there was an oven where there was lots of bread baking. And the bread said, "Little girl, little girl, take us out, take us out. We have been baking seven years, and no one has come to take us out." | |
| 5. | And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Canaan, but go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle. | |
| 6. | If you take care of the small things, the big things will take care of themselves. | |
| 7. | Whichever way you take, it'll take you the same time. | |
| 8. | Well, I watch television, take a nap, or take a walk in the park nearby. | |
| 9. | Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. | |
| 10. | Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. |