Chapter 2 of Canada for Gentlemen is here in full — 472 sentences across 95 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of Canada for Gentlemen is here in full — 472 sentences across 95 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Ottawa, _October 2nd_, 1884. My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter. But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do? How are you? I'm all right!
Chapter 2 of Canada for Gentlemen is here in full — 472 sentences across 95 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the -ing form of “have”
From this reading “My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.”
a written message addressed to a person or organization
From this reading “My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.”
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading “My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.”
the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
From this reading “My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.”
the month following September and preceding November
a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario
From this reading “Ottawa, _October 2nd_, 1884.”
only a very short time before
From this reading “But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?”
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading “My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.”
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From this reading Ottawa, _October 2nd_, 1884.
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From this reading Ottawa, _October 2nd_, 1884.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
later than; following
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading I'm all right!
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading How are you?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
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From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
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From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
dearly loved
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
the -ing form of “have”
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
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From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
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From this reading I'm all right!
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
immediately past
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
a written message addressed to a person or organization
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium
From this reading Ottawa, _October 2nd_, 1884.
the month following September and preceding November
From this reading Ottawa, _October 2nd_, 1884.
a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario
From this reading Ottawa, _October 2nd_, 1884.
precisely, exactly
From this reading I'm all right!
only a very short time before
From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading My Dear Mother, I can't lose this mail after having taken so long about my last letter.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading But it will scarcely be more than How d'you do?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading How are you?
Chapter 2 of Canada for Gentlemen by James Seton Cockburn holds 472 sentences, grouped into 95 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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