Chapter 2 of Brooks's Readers: First Year is here in full — 568 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of Brooks's Readers: First Year is here in full — 568 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now. I think we may go and play. The clouds are going away. I think the sun will shine soon. Let us go out and see.
Chapter 2 of Brooks's Readers: First Year is here in full — 568 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “cloud” — any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
From this reading “The clouds are going away.”
operate or control a vehicle
From this reading “falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.”
decreasing in amount or degree
From this reading “falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.”
participate in games or sport
From this reading “I think we may go and play.”
water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
From this reading “falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.”
be bright by reflecting or casting light
From this reading “falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.”
in the near future
From this reading “I think the sun will shine soon.”
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
From this reading “I think the sun will shine soon.”
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.
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move out of or depart from
In this reading “Let us go out and see.”
force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
In this reading “falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I think we may go and play.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The clouds are going away.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading The clouds are going away.
plural of “cloud” — any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
From this reading The clouds are going away.
operate or control a vehicle
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
decreasing in amount or degree
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading I think we may go and play.
the act of departing
From this reading The clouds are going away.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I think we may go and play.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading Let us go out and see.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading I think we may go and play.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
participate in games or sport
From this reading I think we may go and play.
water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Let us go out and see.
be bright by reflecting or casting light
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
in the near future
From this reading I think the sun will shine soon.
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
From this reading I think the sun will shine soon.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading falling shine drive out Oh, Ned, the rain is not falling now.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading I think we may go and play.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Let us go out and see.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading I think we may go and play.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading I think the sun will shine soon.
Chapter 2 of Brooks's Readers: First Year by Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks holds 568 sentences, grouped into 114 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 568 sentences of Brooks's Readers: First Year, unabridged, divided into 114 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Brooks's Readers: First Year by Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 568 sentences, grouped into 114 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 114 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 114 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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