Chapter 7 of A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
KIND-HEARTED LONDONERS. 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog! How horrid! What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City? And how will you get there?
Chapter 7 of A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading “What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?”
droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
From this reading “'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!”
exceedingly bad
From this reading “How horrid!”
plural of “londoner” — a native or resident of London
From this reading “KIND-HEARTED LONDONERS.”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!”
become covered with mist
From this reading “'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!”
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading “What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?”
United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)
From this reading “'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And how will you get there?
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
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From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
showing who or what does the action
From this reading What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
From this reading What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?
droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading And how will you get there?
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
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exceedingly bad
From this reading How horrid!
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From this reading How horrid!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
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From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition
From this reading KIND-HEARTED LONDONERS.
plural of “londoner” — a native or resident of London
From this reading KIND-HEARTED LONDONERS.
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
become covered with mist
From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?
United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)
From this reading 'Oh Stella, it's a mist, a blacky-yellow mist--I mean a fog!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?
in or at that place or location
From this reading And how will you get there?
used to ask for information about something
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during the time that
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used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading And how will you get there?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading What shall I do here all by myself while you are in the City?
Chapter 7 of A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin holds 112 sentences, grouped into 23 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 7 holds 112 sentences of A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends, unabridged, divided into 23 reading sections.
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