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yesterday

For the word "yesterday", this has three syllables. To divide this word into syllables, it would be like this: yes-ter-day. The stressed syllable for this word would be the first syllable (yes-). Hope this is the answer that you are looking for. 

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.