ele-men-tary
When there is a double consonant in a word, you typically syllabicate it between the double consonants. For example, in the word "butter," you would syllabicate it as "but-ter."
There are three syllables like so: neg-a-tive.
The word even is divided into two syllables like so: e-ven.
There are two syllables divided like so: dress-ing.
The word aerial has three syllables like so: aer-i-al.
There are two syllables divided like so: break-age.
ren.dez.vous
but ter
There are two syllables like so: lan-tern.
The word 'passages' is syllabicated as "pas-sag-es."
The word "item" is syllabicated as i-tem.
an-i-mal