Brushing Hair - daily

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 everyday conversational patterns fit into sentences
  • Develop a natural feel for correct English structure
  • Improve both listening and grammar simultaneously
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shower after every hair his Phil morning a taking brushes
Phil brushes his hair every morning after taking a shower
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him give his a sheen hair it His mother that nice told would
His mother told him that it would give his hair a nice sheen
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small to old he a brush have item shopping He doesn't a such very because go time for uses
He uses a very old brush because he doesn't have time to go shopping for such a small item
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hair remembers always mother the in her his brushing morning He
He always remembers his mother brushing her hair in the morning
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everyday with She to her strokes used brush hair hundred one
She used to brush her hair with one hundred strokes everyday
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old Phil and Now habits brushes in hair and his but fact die lots still hair of brush he have doesn't doesn't he need to it slowly
Now Phil doesn't have lots of hair and in fact he doesn't need to brush it but old habits die slowly and he still brushes his hair
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top brushes of his He head across the it
He brushes it across the top of his head
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cover larger hair much thinks cover this bald than his bald but He help is spot spot his might can his
He thinks this might help cover his bald spot but his bald spot is much larger than his hair can cover
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a to place hold gel then and a bit go across to it head hair his uses He gets of lines in few he of
He gets a few lines of hair to go across his head and then he uses a bit of gel to hold it in place
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every needs morning leave confidence he the gives to him This the house
This gives him the confidence he needs to leave the house every morning
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so that using it he heard the but environment use stopped spray that to He he used bad hair ago years was for
He used to use hair spray but he heard that it was bad for the environment so he stopped using that years ago
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him still a minute shower hair so from damp to and easy is takes is the do only His brush it it to
His hair is still damp from the shower so it is easy to brush and it only takes him a minute to do
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part and day for of routine him is the Still helps that it prepare his
Still it is part of his routine and that helps him prepare for the day
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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 everyday conversational patterns 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