Chapter 11 of Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE LITTLE CIRCUS "Bunny! Bunny Brown! What am I going to be in the circus? I want to be a clown!" "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
Chapter 11 of Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus is here in full — 112 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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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.
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading “Bunny Brown!”
a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit
From this reading “THE LITTLE CIRCUS "Bunny!”
a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
From this reading “THE LITTLE CIRCUS "Bunny!”
a rude or vulgar fool
From this reading “I want to be a clown!"”
the act of departing
From this reading “What am I going to be in the circus?”
propel through the air
From this reading “"Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"”
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading “I want to be a clown!"”
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading “"Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading I want to be a clown!"
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading What am I going to be in the circus?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading What am I going to be in the circus?
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading Bunny Brown!
a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit
From this reading THE LITTLE CIRCUS "Bunny!
a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
From this reading THE LITTLE CIRCUS "Bunny!
a rude or vulgar fool
From this reading I want to be a clown!"
the act of departing
From this reading What am I going to be in the circus?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading What am I going to be in the circus?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading What am I going to be in the circus?
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading THE LITTLE CIRCUS "Bunny!
on one occasion
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
above and across; more than
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
cut with a saw
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE LITTLE CIRCUS "Bunny!
propel through the air
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading What am I going to be in the circus?
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading I want to be a clown!"
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What am I going to be in the circus?
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes, I want to be a clown, too, and throw water over another clown, like I saw in a circus once!"
Chapter 11 of Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Laura Lee Hope holds 112 sentences, grouped into 23 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 11 holds 112 sentences of Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus, unabridged, divided into 23 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Laura Lee Hope exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 112 sentences, grouped into 23 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 23 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 23 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 11 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 Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
