Friends For Lunch - disappearing H

Word Order Practice

Listen to each sentence and arrange the words in the correct order. Click on words to move them to your answer area.

Green checkmark (✓) means your current word order is correct so far. Red X (✗) means there's an error in the order.

Why Word Order Matters in English

Word order is crucial in English because it affects meaning. Unlike some languages that use case endings or particles to show word relationships, English relies heavily on word order to convey meaning.

This exercise helps you:

  • Internalize English sentence patterns
  • Recognize how natural speed speech fit into sentences
  • Develop a natural feel for correct English structure
  • Improve both listening and grammar simultaneously
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friend Mary is Sandra’s
Mary is Sandra’s friend
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great tasting both like eating They food
They both like eating great tasting food
Listen
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they often restaurant together a go to So
So they often go to a restaurant together
Listen
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appointments her looks makes in friend going scheduler for Mary and with her out to weeks forward advance in
Mary makes appointments in her scheduler for weeks in advance and looks forward to going out with her friend
Listen
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them never scheduler forgets about Sandra writes because in appointments her she the often
Sandra often forgets about the appointments because she never writes them in her scheduler
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in her them head often to tries She she forgets keep but
She tries to keep them in her head but she often forgets
Listen

Tips for Effective Practice

  1. Always listen to the audio first before attempting to order the words
  2. Pay attention to common patterns like subject-verb-object
  3. Notice how natural speed speech are positioned in sentences
  4. If you make a mistake, use it as a learning opportunity - try to understand why the correct order is different
  5. After completing each sentence, listen to the audio again while reading your correctly ordered sentence