A Great Day for the Irish
A Great Day for the Irish by Alice L. (Alice Lightner) Hopf is available here as the complete text, split into 77 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
A Great Day for the Irish by Alice L. (Alice Lightner) Hopf. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #60846.
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A Great Day for the Irish
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This edition of A Great Day for the Irish by Alice L. (Alice Lightner) Hopf carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #60846, divided into 1 chapters and 77 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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The complete text of A Great Day for the Irish is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #60846 and divided into 77 sections.
This page carries the whole of A Great Day for the Irish by Alice L. (Alice Lightner) Hopf, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #60846, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 384 sentences across 1 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.
How is A Great Day for the Irish divided for reading?
A Great Day for the Irish is presented in 1 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting A Great Day for the Irish as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 77 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 1 chapters.
Can I hear A Great Day for the Irish read aloud?
Yes. Every sentence and every individual word of A Great Day for the Irish can be played aloud, and each word shows its dictionary entry.
Every sentence of A Great Day for the Irish can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.
Questions about reading A Great Day for the Irish
Common questions about reading A Great Day for the Irish by Alice L. (Alice Lightner) Hopf on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Is this the complete text of A Great Day for the Irish?
Yes. All 384 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #60846 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of A Great Day for the Irish is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #60846, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does A Great Day for the Irish take to read?
About 32 minutes of reading across 77 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to read A Great Day for the Irish section by section
How to work through A Great Day for the Irish section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Open a chapter
Choose one of the 1 chapters of A Great Day for the Irish to begin.
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Read one section
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
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Listen and tap
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Vocabulary met early in A Great Day for the Irish
Words and structures a reader meets early in A Great Day for the Irish, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Watchdogs
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Great Day for the Irish; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Watched
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Great Day for the Irish; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Everything
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Great Day for the Irish; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Out--including
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of A Great Day for the Irish; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.