Chapter 15 of Dividing Waters is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of Dividing Waters is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Why?" "Because I hate this place and—and every one." "Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?" She laughed wildly. "My home!
Chapter 15 of Dividing Waters is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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for the reason that
From this reading “"Because I hate this place and—and every one."”
the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
From this reading “"Because I hate this place and—and every one."”
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “"Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"”
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading “"Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"”
have as a part, be made up out of
From this reading “"Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"”
past form of “laugh” — produce laughter
From this reading “She laughed wildly.”
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading “"Because I hate this place and—and every one."”
to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree
From this reading “She laughed wildly.”
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.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Because I hate this place and—and every one."
for the reason that
From this reading "Because I hate this place and—and every one."
the form of “do” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading "Because I hate this place and—and every one."
the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
From this reading "Because I hate this place and—and every one."
where you live at a particular time
From this reading "Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading "Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Because I hate this place and—and every one."
have as a part, be made up out of
From this reading "Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"
past form of “laugh” — produce laughter
From this reading She laughed wildly.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "My home!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading "Because I hate this place and—and every one."
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading "Because I hate this place and—and every one."
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She laughed wildly.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading "Because I hate this place and—and every one."
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading "Why?"
to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree
From this reading She laughed wildly.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Does that include your home and your husband, Nora?"
Chapter 15 of Dividing Waters by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie holds 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 15 holds 416 sentences of Dividing Waters, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 15 of Dividing Waters by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 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.
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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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