Chapter 2 of Cinderella Story is here in full — 445 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Cinderella Story is here in full — 445 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed. "We use them in a commercial process we're developing. That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret. We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see." "What do they do?"
Chapter 2 of Cinderella Story is here in full — 445 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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united by being of the same opinion
From this reading “"A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.”
not open or affording passage or access
From this reading “That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.”
connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises
From this reading “"We use them in a commercial process we're developing.”
any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
From this reading “"A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.”
relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply
From this reading “"We use them in a commercial process we're developing.”
a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)
From this reading “"A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.”
obtain a patent for
From this reading “We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."”
subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
From this reading “"We use them in a commercial process we're developing.”
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.
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 before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading "A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.
united by being of the same opinion
From this reading "A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
not open or affording passage or access
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises
From this reading "We use them in a commercial process we're developing.
any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
From this reading "A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.
relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply
From this reading "We use them in a commercial process we're developing.
a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)
From this reading "A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "What do they do?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."
the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "We use them in a commercial process we're developing.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."
obtain a patent for
From this reading We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."
subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
From this reading "We use them in a commercial process we're developing.
Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
From this reading "A sort of crustacean," Dink agreed.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading "We use them in a commercial process we're developing.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "What do they do?"
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
the act of using
From this reading "We use them in a commercial process we're developing.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading "We use them in a commercial process we're developing.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "We use them in a commercial process we're developing.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "What do they do?"
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading That's why we keep this floor closed off and secret.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading We don't have a patent on the use of Microfabridae, you see."
Chapter 2 of Cinderella Story by Allen Kim Lang holds 445 sentences, grouped into 89 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 445 sentences of Cinderella Story, unabridged, divided into 89 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Cinderella Story by Allen Kim Lang exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 445 sentences, grouped into 89 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 89 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 89 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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