Improve your listening and writing skills by filling in the blanks in the song lyrics. These activities are designed for Beginners and Intermediates to learn new vocabulary related to a specific topic in a quick and fun way.
Simon and Garfunkel are among the greatest songwriters of all time. In this week’s song, The Sound of Silence, you’ll notice that the word order is a bit unusual. This is because songwriters often change word order to fit their creative intentions. see if you can spot the unusual word order?
Exercise
Fill in the missing words.-fell – never – softly – walls – sound – Hear – alone – cold – streets – split – thousand – my – people – ⇩
This activity is case sensitive so make sure to use capital letters when needed.
Grammar
Word order III (indirect/direct objects)
When we talk about a person receiving something, we call the receiver the indirect object and the thing they receive is the direct object.
We normally use the order subject + verb + indirect object + direct object:
I (subject) send (verb) my mother (indirect object) a letter (direct object: article + noun) every week (time).
Mr. Calloway (subject) teaches (verb) us (indirect object) difficult grammar (direct object: adjective + noun).
Rick gives everyone presents (everyone is the indirect object, the receiver; presents are the direct object everyone receives)
Maria tells me everything.
I tell Harriet all of my secrets.
(You) Please give Mallory this book.
We can see we often use object pronouns (me, you, him, her, us, them, whom) or proper names (Mr. Calloway, Maria) in this structure.
We can also sometimes use the order subject + verb + direct object + indirect object when we want to emphasize the receiver of the action:
I (subject) gave (verb) that book (direct object) to Mallory (indirect object) on Tuesday (time).
Mr. Calloway (subject) teaches (verb) difficult grammar (direct object) to us (indirect object).
Rick gives presents to everyone.
Maria tells everything to me.
(You) Please give this book to Mallory.
We can see that we need the preposition to when we use this structure.
Incredible lyrics, the song has been very nice but the lyrics are better
I always liked of this song, that made part of my childhood.
Great, thank you!
One of the best song of all time
Thanks, Marion ! I like learning in this way