Chapter 10 of Back Home is here in full — 212 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Back Home is here in full — 212 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The women began to whimper. “Oh, the poor man! The roof will fall in on him! He'll smother to death! Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?
Chapter 10 of Back Home is here in full — 212 sentences across 43 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading “The women began to whimper.”
the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading “He'll smother to death!”
descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
From this reading “The roof will fall in on him!”
a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
From this reading “The roof will fall in on him!”
envelop completely
From this reading “He'll smother to death!”
a person, without saying who
From this reading “Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?”
cry weakly or softly
From this reading “The women began to whimper.”
plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading “The women began to whimper.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading The women began to whimper.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?
the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading He'll smother to death!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?
descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
From this reading The roof will fall in on him!
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He'll smother to death!
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The roof will fall in on him!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The roof will fall in on him!
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading “Oh, the poor man!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh, the poor man!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The roof will fall in on him!
deserving or inciting pity
From this reading “Oh, the poor man!
a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
From this reading The roof will fall in on him!
envelop completely
From this reading He'll smother to death!
a person, without saying who
From this reading Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?
express in words
From this reading Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The women began to whimper.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The women began to whimper.
cry weakly or softly
From this reading The women began to whimper.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Oh, why doesn't somebody go tell him to come away?
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading The roof will fall in on him!
plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading The women began to whimper.
Chapter 10 of Back Home by Eugene Wood holds 212 sentences, grouped into 43 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 10 holds 212 sentences of Back Home, unabridged, divided into 43 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of Back Home by Eugene Wood exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 212 sentences, grouped into 43 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 43 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 43 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 10 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 292 minutes of reading across 701 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Back Home section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Back Home, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
