Chapter 12 of Daisy Burns (Volume 1) is here in full — 331 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Daisy Burns (Volume 1) is here in full — 331 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Where do you come from?" he asked. "From the next room." "Have you been there long?" "The whole evening." "I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"
Chapter 12 of Daisy Burns (Volume 1) is here in full — 331 sentences across 67 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/66 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading “"Where do you come from?" he asked.”
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
From this reading “"The whole evening."”
immediately following in time or order
From this reading “"From the next room."”
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading “"From the next room."”
the state of being asleep
From this reading “"I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “"I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"”
on a floor above
From this reading “"I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"”
including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
From this reading “"The whole evening."”
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 “"From the next room."”
In this reading “"The whole evening."”
In this reading “"Where do you come from?" he asked.”
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.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading "Where do you come from?" he asked.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading "Have you been there long?"
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading "Where do you come from?" he asked.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "Where do you come from?" he asked.
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
From this reading "The whole evening."
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading "Where do you come from?" he asked.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "Have you been there long?"
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Where do you come from?" he asked.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"
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 "Have you been there long?"
immediately following in time or order
From this reading "From the next room."
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading "From the next room."
the state of being asleep
From this reading "I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "From the next room."
in or at that place or location
From this reading "Have you been there long?"
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading "I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"
on a floor above
From this reading "I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "I thought you were upstairs sleeping?"
in or at the place that
From this reading "Where do you come from?" he asked.
including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
From this reading "The whole evening."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Where do you come from?" he asked.
Chapter 12 of Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Julia Kavanagh holds 331 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.
Chapter 12 holds 331 sentences of Daisy Burns (Volume 1), unabridged, divided into 67 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Julia Kavanagh exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 331 sentences, grouped into 67 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 67 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 67 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 12 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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About 459 minutes of reading across 1103 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Daisy Burns (Volume 1) section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Daisy Burns (Volume 1), each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
