Writer has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | A ghost writer is a writer who writes for someone else, and the latter, for practical purposes, is considered the sole author. | |
| 2. | I'm not a ghost-writer, I'm the ghost of a deceased writer. | |
| 3. | In English there is a choice between closed and open punctuation; in the former, the writer uses all punctuation that can legitimately be used, whereas in the latter the writer leaves out all punctuation that can be left out without creating ambiguity. | |
| 4. | My friends say I'm a prolific writer, but I haven't written anything for months. | |
| 5. | In his fantasy, he imagined he was a famous writer. | |
| 6. | There is one thing which we do every time we read, whether we are aware of it or not; we come in contact with the personality of the writer. | |
| 7. | Every great writer seems to have been interested in English. | |
| 8. | Mr Baker is not so much a scholar as a writer. | |
| 9. | Brown is not so much a writer as a scholar. | |
| 10. | In addition to being a great statesman, Churchill was a great writer. |