There are three syllables: ear-li-est.
The word screen has one syllable. The entire word is the syllable.
You put emphasis on the second syllable.
in the first syllable
in the syllable 'bear'.
About is stressed on the second syllable.
ele` mentary
The word is all one syllable.
in the first syllable
The stress in the word "technology" falls on the second syllable, "no" (toe-KNO-lo-gee).
A syllable is a part of a word, or in some cases, an entire word, since some words contain only one syllable. Put the syllables together and make words. Put the words together and make sentences. Put the sentences together and make statements.
There is only 1 syllable in the word sage.
Aspire is not a three syllable word, it is formed of two syllables. Each syllable is a vowel sound of which you can hear, or to put it in a different way, each vowel (with the exception of those at the end of a word or next to another vowel).