Chapter 8 of Captain Cranberry is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Captain Cranberry is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
CYN. Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high. I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it. You can. LEE.
Chapter 8 of Captain Cranberry is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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exceptionally bad or displeasing
From this reading “Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.”
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading “Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.”
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
From this reading “LEE.”
(often followed by “of”) a large number or amount or extent
From this reading “Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.”
inflected form of “mean” — mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.”
a condition requiring relief
From this reading “Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.”
stay the same; remain in a certain state
From this reading “I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.”
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading “I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.”
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 “Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.”
set up or found
In this reading “Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.”
In this reading “Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.”
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.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
exceptionally bad or displeasing
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading You can.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading CYN.
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
From this reading LEE.
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 I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
(often followed by “of”) a large number or amount or extent
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
inflected form of “mean” — mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
a condition requiring relief
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
stay the same; remain in a certain state
From this reading I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Well, I guess it won’t be such an awful lot o’ money that I need to be set up too high.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I said you could stay as long as you wanted to and I meant it.
Chapter 8 of Captain Cranberry by Gladys Ruth Bridgham holds 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 8 holds 400 sentences of Captain Cranberry, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
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