This practice set is part of a series designed to help students transition from copying individual words and abbreviations to phrases. This practice set is offered at a word-spacing of 4x, 3x, and 2x.

I recommend starting with a speed you are comfortable with head-copying individual words and abbreviations. Start at 4x. Over time, reduce the word-spacing from 3x to 2x, and finally to standard word-spacing. This approach is analogous to the Farnsworth method, but with words instead of characters.

For each set of words, try to head-copy it. First, the words are sent in Morse code. Then it is spoken. And finally, it is sent again in Morse code. If you missed it the first time when it was sent, the second time allows you an opportunity to learn the words.

N-Grams are a stepping stone in head-copying entire sentences. These word groups should seem familiar and common to any English speaker.

N-Grams in this context are sequential words found in a sentence where n is the number of words found in the sequence. This practice file contains the top 500 5-grams found in contemporary English. Each 2-gram was randomly selected twice for a total of 1,000 practice opportunities.

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