We reported an aphasic patient who showed difficulty in repetition of word sequences or short sentences, although repetition of digits and non-words was intact. We examined his verbal short-term memory. Thecase was a 70-year-old, right-handed male. He had an operation for removal of the middle-temporal-gyrus owing to brain tumor. Afterwards he showed fluent aphasia. He had a digit span of 7 figures and succeeded in repetition of non-words of 8 mora. On the other hand, repetition of short sentences and word sequences was difficult. The results of pointing at word sequences varied according to presentation modalities. There were some deviations in repetition of non-words and repetition of word sequences. These findings suggest that processing of short-term memory for digits and words is different.