The Quick Brown Fox…

Posted by: Josef Essberger

What is special about the following sentence? The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This sentence contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is (was?) used by typists to test their keyboards. Such a sentence is called a “pangram”. You may also like: ESL Corner Student Motivation

What is special about the following sentence?

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

This sentence contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is (was?) used by typists to test their keyboards. Such a sentence is called a “pangram”.

You may also like:

• ESL Corner
• Student Motivation

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Posted by Josef Essberger January 2008

Contributor: Josef Essberger, founder of EnglishClub. Originally from London, England, Josef is the author of several books for learners of English including English Prepositions List and Learn English in 7.

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7 comments

• Ram patil says:
  

  Typing practice

• jaydip says:
  

  Hiiii

• aijaz hussain says:
  

  Sir we are posting our comments here in English, there would be alot of mistakes. Will you be kind enough to inform us about our shortcomings.

• hong t nhan, vietnam says:
  

  Not until today have I known this. Joe, you are damn-good teacher!

• alaaayman says:
  

  You are not A star,
  You Are the stars ,
  That are in the sky,
  That shine in the dark,
  That light our way,
  That make our life,
  More brighter.More easier.
  **********************
  alaaayman

• alaaayman says:
  

  Indeed your deserve to be my first teacher **************************************************

• hanh says:
  

  its great. i can enrich my knowlege here.thanks a lot