Linking Practice
Listen and read the following text. Then mark the linking you find in it. Don’t forget to apply the rules studied before. And don’t link over punctuation marks.
What is QWERTY?
The first modern typewriter was developed by Christopher Sholes and two of his friends, Carlos Glidden and Samule Soulé. They worked on a newspaper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1860s.
Sholes put each letter on the end of a metal bar. A key was pushed down and the end of the bar hit the paper. The typewriter keys were put in alphabetical order, but the alphabetical order caused a problem. Fast typing made some of the letter bars get caught on one another. The bars were too close together.
Sholes solved the problem. He found out the most-used letters in English. Then he put these letters far apart on the typewriter keyboard. The letter bars did not hit each other easily. The first six letters on the top of the keyboard are QWERTY.
Taken and adapted for educational purposes from Curry, Dean (1987), Right Reading. Washington DC: USIA page 53
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