Chapter 11 of Budge & Toddie is here in full — 335 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Budge & Toddie is here in full — 335 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.” Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked: “Budgie, izh you a-tellin’ de troof?” “What ’bout?” “Why, ’bout not dyin’.
Chapter 11 of Budge & Toddie is here in full — 335 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/67 · 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.
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
From this reading ““What ’bout?””
move very slightly
From this reading “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:”
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading ““We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.””
an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
From this reading “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:”
deeply or markedly affected or influenced
From this reading “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:”
plural of “line” — a formation of people or things one beside another
From this reading “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:”
recurring again and again
From this reading “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:”
North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng
From this reading “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who 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 “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:”
In this reading “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:”
In this reading “Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:”
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From this reading “Budgie, izh you a-tellin’ de troof?”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
From this reading “What ’bout?”
move very slightly
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
From this reading “Budgie, izh you a-tellin’ de troof?”
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
From this reading “Budgie, izh you a-tellin’ de troof?”
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading “We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Why, ’bout not dyin’.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.”
an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.”
deeply or markedly affected or influenced
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Budgie, izh you a-tellin’ de troof?”
immediately past
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
plural of “line” — a formation of people or things one beside another
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading “We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.”
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
immediately following in time or order
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
not any; not one
From this reading “We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “Why, ’bout not dyin’.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
above and across; more than
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
recurring again and again
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
a more or less definite period of time now or previously present
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Budgie, izh you a-tellin’ de troof?”
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home We’re goin’ home To die no more.”
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What ’bout?”
which person or people
From this reading Sang Budge through the hall next morning, and he repeated the lines over and over so many times that they at last impressed themselves upon the mind of Toddie, who asked:
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading “Why, ’bout not dyin’.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Budgie, izh you a-tellin’ de troof?”
Chapter 11 of Budge & Toddie by John Habberton holds 335 sentences, grouped into 67 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.
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