Short dictation: listen and type

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Your sentence is lined up with the real one word by word, so one missed word does not make every word after it wrong. In the comparison:

• green words are right;
• underlined words were in the sentence but you did not type them;
• redcrossed words show the right word above what you typed;
• struck-out words were not in the sentence.

Capitals and punctuation are ignored, and so are apostrophes, so dont counts as don't. But a contraction is still a contraction: if the sentence says it's, typing it is is marked as different, because hearing the short form is the skill being practised. Spelling follows American English.

Contractions

I've, it's, don't and I'd are often a single short sound. Miss the 've in I've already eaten and the sentence changes tense.

Weak words

Small words such as of, to, a and can are usually unstressed and shortened: a cup of tea sounds like a cuppa tea. They are still there, and they still count.

Words that run together

Did you often sounds like one word, and going to like gonna. In dictation you write the full words, so learning what they sound like when joined is half the work. Slow the recording down with the speed buttons if a sentence is too fast; the words do not change.