There are two syllables like so: peo-ple.
There are two syllables in the word follow. The syllables of the word are fol-low.
Break the work missionary into syllables like this: mis-sion-ar-y.
The word song contains only one syllable. As such, it cannot be broken up into multiple syllables.
spe-ci-fic
re-al-is-tic
There are three syllables like so: en-cour-age.
Slipped only has one syllable so it cannot be broken up into syllables.
Two syllables : san/dy (normally pronounced "SANN-dee")
There are three syllables:lan-gua-ges.
The word representing has four syllables like so: rep-re-sent-ing.
Sound the word out and the breaks are syllables. So milligram would be mil-li-gram.
There are six syllables like so: Spon-dy-lo-lis-the-sis.