Chapter 5 of Black-Eyed Susan is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Black-Eyed Susan is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Here is your tin pail, Susan. Try not to lose the cover, child.” “Yes, Grandmother.” “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag. Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
Chapter 5 of Black-Eyed Susan is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/38 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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 flexible container with a single opening
From this reading ““And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.”
provide with a covering or cause to be covered
From this reading “Try not to lose the cover, child.””
the mother of your father or mother
From this reading ““Yes, Grandmother.””
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading “Try not to lose the cover, child.””
a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
From this reading ““Here is your tin pail, Susan.”
plural of “slipper” — low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors
From this reading ““And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.”
a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
From this reading ““Here is your tin pail, Susan.”
make an effort or attempt
From this reading “Try not to lose the cover, child.””
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 ““Here is your tin pail, Susan.”
In this reading ““And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.”
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.
anew
From this reading Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.
a flexible container with a single opening
From this reading “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
a young person of either sex
From this reading Try not to lose the cover, child.”
provide with a covering or cause to be covered
From this reading Try not to lose the cover, child.”
the mother of your father or mother
From this reading “Yes, Grandmother.”
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading “Here is your tin pail, Susan.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “Here is your tin pail, Susan.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading Try not to lose the cover, child.”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Try not to lose the cover, child.”
a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
From this reading “Here is your tin pail, Susan.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.
plural of “slipper” — low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors
From this reading “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Here is your tin pail, Susan.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Try not to lose the cover, child.”
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “And I’ve put your slippers in this little bag.
a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
From this reading “Here is your tin pail, Susan.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Try not to lose the cover, child.”
make an effort or attempt
From this reading Try not to lose the cover, child.”
in the company of; together with
From this reading Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
an affirmative
From this reading “Yes, Grandmother.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Be sure to bring them home again with you.”
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Here is your tin pail, Susan.
Chapter 5 of Black-Eyed Susan by Ethel Calvert Phillips holds 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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 5 holds 192 sentences of Black-Eyed Susan, unabridged, divided into 39 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Black-Eyed Susan by Ethel Calvert Phillips exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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 39 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 39 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 5 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 160 minutes of reading across 387 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Black-Eyed Susan, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
