Chapter 3 of Billy To-Morrow's Chums is here in full — 265 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Billy To-Morrow's Chums is here in full — 265 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about. “What? Going without saying good-by to her? Even I have more manners than that.” “But she won’t let me go if I tell her.
Chapter 3 of Billy To-Morrow's Chums is here in full — 265 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the act of departing
From this reading “Going without saying good-by to her?”
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading ““But she won’t let me go if I tell her.”
social deportment
From this reading “Even I have more manners than that.””
street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
From this reading “Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.”
past form of “pull” — cause to move by pulling
From this reading “Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.”
a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
From this reading “Going without saying good-by to her?”
a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
From this reading “Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.”
the largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port
From this reading “Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.”
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 “Going without saying good-by to her?”
In this reading “Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.”
In this reading “Going without saying good-by to her?”
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 Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading “But she won’t let me go if I tell her.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
divisible by two
From this reading Even I have more manners than that.”
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
the act of departing
From this reading Going without saying good-by to her?
a farewell remark
From this reading Going without saying good-by to her?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Even I have more manners than that.”
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Going without saying good-by to her?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Even I have more manners than that.”
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading “But she won’t let me go if I tell her.
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading “But she won’t let me go if I tell her.
social deportment
From this reading Even I have more manners than that.”
street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “But she won’t let me go if I tell her.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
past form of “pull” — cause to move by pulling
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
From this reading Going without saying good-by to her?
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “But she won’t let me go if I tell her.
a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
the largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
express in words
From this reading “But she won’t let me go if I tell her.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading Before Max could go more than a few steps Sydney pulled him about.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Even I have more manners than that.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Going without saying good-by to her?
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What?
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading Going without saying good-by to her?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “But she won’t let me go if I tell her.
Chapter 3 of Billy To-Morrow's Chums by Sarah Pratt Carr holds 265 sentences, grouped into 53 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 3 holds 265 sentences of Billy To-Morrow's Chums, unabridged, divided into 53 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Billy To-Morrow's Chums by Sarah Pratt Carr exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 265 sentences, grouped into 53 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.
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