Letters of the Motor Girl
Letters of the Motor Girl by Ethellyn Gardner is available here as the complete text, split into 178 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Letters of the Motor Girl by Ethellyn Gardner. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #36280.
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Letters of the Motor Girl
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This edition of Letters of the Motor Girl by Ethellyn Gardner carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #36280, divided into 12 chapters and 178 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 Letters of the Motor Girl is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #36280 and divided into 178 sections.
This page carries the whole of Letters of the Motor Girl by Ethellyn Gardner, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #36280, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 890 sentences across 12 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 Letters of the Motor Girl divided for reading?
Letters of the Motor Girl is presented in 12 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Letters of the Motor Girl as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 178 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 12 chapters.
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Every sentence of Letters of the Motor Girl 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.
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Is this the complete text of Letters of the Motor Girl?
Yes. All 890 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #36280 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of Letters of the Motor Girl is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #36280, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Letters of the Motor Girl take to read?
About 74 minutes of reading across 178 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Letters of the Motor Girl
Words and structures a reader meets early in Letters of the Motor Girl, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Breeziest
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Letters of the Motor Girl; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Bunch
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Letters of the Motor Girl; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Letters
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- Published
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