Chapter 2 of A Pet Reader is here in full — 530 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of A Pet Reader is here in full — 530 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me! I have a green cage ready for thee.” _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day. We put fresh water into a little dish. The bird gets into the dish.
Chapter 2 of A Pet Reader is here in full — 530 sentences across 106 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)
From this reading “_Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.”
warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading “The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me!”
possessive form of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
From this reading “I have a green cage ready for thee.””
a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
From this reading “We put fresh water into a little dish.”
plural of “get” — a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
From this reading “The bird gets into the dish.”
an ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BC
a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
From this reading “_Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
water that is not salty
In this reading “We put fresh water into a little dish.”
In this reading “The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me!”
get involved in or with
In this reading “The bird gets into the dish.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading I have a green cage ready for thee.”
a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me!
possessive form of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
From this reading I have a green cage ready for thee.”
a young person of either sex
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me!
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
From this reading We put fresh water into a little dish.
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading I have a green cage ready for thee.”
recently made, produced, or harvested
From this reading We put fresh water into a little dish.
plural of “get” — a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
From this reading The bird gets into the dish.
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading I have a green cage ready for thee.”
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading I have a green cage ready for thee.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I have a green cage ready for thee.”
moving to the inside of something
From this reading We put fresh water into a little dish.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me!
an ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BC
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me!
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading _Lydia Maria Child_ The Bird’s Bath Our bird has a bath every day.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading We put fresh water into a little dish.
completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress
From this reading I have a green cage ready for thee.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me!
an old word for “you”, as the object, speaking to one person
From this reading I have a green cage ready for thee.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The Little Bird “Little bird! little bird! come to me!
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading We put fresh water into a little dish.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We put fresh water into a little dish.
Chapter 2 of A Pet Reader by Edith Wilhelmina Lawson holds 530 sentences, grouped into 106 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 2 holds 530 sentences of A Pet Reader, unabridged, divided into 106 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of A Pet Reader by Edith Wilhelmina Lawson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 530 sentences, grouped into 106 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 106 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 106 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 2 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 83 minutes of reading across 201 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through A Pet Reader section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in A Pet Reader, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
