Seriously... can anybody make sense of this

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On line 18, use a method on the 'spareWords' to set 'firstWord' to be first word of the 'spareWords' array whilst simultaneously removing it from the beginning of the array.

I have tried a few different things. What I was show how to do is definitely not the same as what this challenge is asking me to do. I'm basically cheating with my notes and still not getting this one right. Seriously... I need some help or this needs to be corrected. Either I'm wrong or teamtreehouse is wrong.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title> JavaScript Foundations: Arrays</title>
    <style>
      html {
        background: #FAFAFA;
        font-family: sans-serif;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>JavaScript Foundations</h1>
    <h2>Arrays: Methods Part 1</h2>
    <script>
      var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"];
      var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"];
      var firstWord = spareWords;
      var lastWord = spareWords;
      saying;
      saying;
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Answer 1 · 2015-02-05T01:30:34Z

February 5, 2015 1:30am

Basically it's asking you to remove the first item in the 'spareWords' array while making it the value of the 'firstWord' variable. You do this by using the 'shift' method:

      var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"];
      var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"];
      var firstWord = spareWords.shift();
      var lastWord = spareWords;
      saying;
      saying;

Answer 2 · 2015-02-05T01:33:33Z

February 5, 2015 1:33am

Hey Ira -

Looks like you just need to use the shift() function. Something like this

var firstWord = spareWords.shitf();

Also you need to remove the saying; from your code ! Hope this helps, kj

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