Yes has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | "Hello? Mom?" "Yes, Sami." "Is Dad home?" "Yes." "Can I talk to him?" "He's taking a shower." "Mom?" "Yes, sweetheart." "I have something important to tell you. It's very important." "Yes?" "You need to be very strong, OK?" "Yes, what is it?" "Something terrible happened to Farid." "What?!" "Mom? Hello? Are you still there?" "Oh, my God!" "Mom... Mom... Farid is dead." "Oh, my God!" "Mom... I'm sorry, Mom, I'm really sorry." | |
| 2. | And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can. At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach out for the ballot. Yes we can. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can. When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can. She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that we shall overcome. Yes we can. A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. | |
| 3. | "Hey, you!" "Yes?" "See this piece of shit here?" "Yes." "Do I owe him money?" "Yes!" "...Screw you!" "Yes..." | |
| 4. | "Okay, Kimi, we need to keep working all four tyres please, keep working all four tyres." "Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm doing that all the time. You don't have to remind me every ten seconds." | |
| 5. | "Lost?" - "Yes..." - "Frightened?" - "Yes." - "Confused?" - "Yes!" - "Good! Ahahahaha!" | |
| 6. | "No way!" "Yes, yes way." | |
| 7. | Yes, yes, of course. | |
| 8. | I don't need you to say "yes". I know that the answer is "yes". | |
| 9. | The difference between the two types of "yes" may be greater than between "yes" and "no". | |
| 10. | "Tom, there is something I want to talk to you about..." "Yes, what is it? Is it something serious?" "Yes, sort of..." |