Chapter 4 of Bijou is here in full — 391 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Bijou is here in full — 391 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"That would be nice!" "Oh, he would be glad to do it! Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked: "If what?" "Oh, nothing!
Chapter 4 of Bijou is here in full — 391 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/78 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading “Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:”
a boy or man
From this reading “Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:”
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading “"Oh, he would be glad to do it!”
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading “Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:”
pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
From this reading “"That would be nice!"”
not one thing; not anything
From this reading “"Oh, nothing!”
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading “Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:”
(of a nose) blocked
From this reading “Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:”
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.
In this reading “Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "That would be nice!"
a small and delicately worked piece
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "Oh, he would be glad to do it!
a boy or man
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading "Oh, he would be glad to do it!
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Oh, he would be glad to do it!
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading "Oh, he would be glad to do it!
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
From this reading "That would be nice!"
not one thing; not anything
From this reading "Oh, nothing!
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading "Oh, he would be glad to do it!
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
(of a nose) blocked
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "That would be nice!"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "Oh, he would be glad to do it!
precisely as stated
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Giraud is a very nice fellow; we should all like him, if----" He stopped short, and Bijou asked:
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "If what?"
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading "That would be nice!"
Chapter 4 of Bijou by Gyp holds 391 sentences, grouped into 79 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 4 holds 391 sentences of Bijou, unabridged, divided into 79 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Bijou by Gyp exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 391 sentences, grouped into 79 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 79 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 79 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 4 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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Words and structures a reader meets early in Bijou, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
