Chapter 11 of Dave Dashaway the Young Aviator is here in full — 134 sentences across 27 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Dave Dashaway the Young Aviator is here in full — 134 sentences across 27 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next. “That’s enough, Dawson.” “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.” “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it. Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
Chapter 11 of Dave Dashaway the Young Aviator is here in full — 134 sentences across 27 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
exceptionally bad or displeasing
From this reading “THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.”
the contestant you hope to defeat
From this reading “Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.”
a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike
From this reading ““That’s enough, Dawson.””
plural of “end” — either extremity of something that has length
From this reading ““I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.”
impelled by physical force especially against resistance
From this reading ““I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.”
a message received and understood
From this reading “Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.”
offensive term for a person of German descent
From this reading ““My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.””
a result
From this reading ““I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends 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.
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 “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
exceptionally bad or displeasing
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
a youthful male person
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
a friend who is frequently in the company of another
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
the contestant you hope to defeat
From this reading Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike
From this reading “That’s enough, Dawson.”
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
plural of “end” — either extremity of something that has length
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
From this reading “That’s enough, Dawson.”
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
impelled by physical force especially against resistance
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
detected or perceived by the sense of hearing
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
a message received and understood
From this reading Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
offensive term for a person of German descent
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
plural of “know” — the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
(often followed by “of”) a large number or amount or extent
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
immediately following in time or order
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
a result
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
a male human offspring
From this reading Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
express in words
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “That’s enough, Dawson.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
which person or people
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading “I tell you that will do,” was the forcible response, “and it ends it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “My boy, Jerry, knows this business, and you won’t find a lot who do.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE AIR KING “You’ll be awful sorry for this,” Dave and his companion heard next.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Your son gave away a lot of information to a competitor.
Chapter 11 of Dave Dashaway the Young Aviator by Roy Rockwood holds 134 sentences, grouped into 27 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 134 sentences of Dave Dashaway the Young Aviator, unabridged, divided into 27 reading sections.
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