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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Sandra’s Mary is friend
Mary is Sandra’s friend
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food great tasting They like both eating
They both like eating great tasting food
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a they restaurant go to So often together
So they often go to a restaurant together
Listen
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to friend advance weeks forward and with in her appointments Mary out in her for looks going makes scheduler
Mary makes appointments in her scheduler for weeks in advance and looks forward to going out with her friend
Listen
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often in Sandra forgets about appointments never because her the she them scheduler writes
Sandra often forgets about the appointments because she never writes them in her scheduler
Listen
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forgets but head in keep to She she often tries her them
She tries to keep them in her head but she often forgets
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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