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. 2008 Dec;124(6):3793–3802. doi: 10.1121/1.2998980

Table 1.

The 40-word corpus arranged in eight rows and five columns where each column is a word category (name, verb, number, adjective, and noun) and a choice of one word from each column in order from left to right would produce a syntactically correct but unpredictable sentence.

Bob Bought Two Big Bags
Gene Found Three Blue Cards
Jane Gave Four Cold Gloves
Jill Held Five Hot Hats
Lynn Lost Six New Pens
Mike Saw Eight Old Shoes
Pat Sold Nine Red Socks
Sue Took Ten Small Toys