Chapter 11 of Dorothy Dale's Great Secret is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Dorothy Dale's Great Secret is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A JOLLY HOME-COMING “My! What great big boys! You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger. And Joe! Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
Chapter 11 of Dorothy Dale's Great Secret is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading “You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.”
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading “You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.”
a man of refinement
From this reading “Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!””
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading “A JOLLY HOME-COMING “My!”
by chance
From this reading “You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.”
being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory
From this reading “Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!””
be agreeable or acceptable to
From this reading “Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!””
a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
From this reading “Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!””
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 “Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!””
In this reading “You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.”
In this reading “What great big boys!”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A JOLLY HOME-COMING “My!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And Joe!
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading What great big boys!
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading What great big boys!
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.
a man of refinement
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading What great big boys!
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A JOLLY HOME-COMING “My!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And Joe!
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading A JOLLY HOME-COMING “My!
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading A JOLLY HOME-COMING “My!
by chance
From this reading You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.
being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.
be agreeable or acceptable to
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What great big boys!
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You can’t possibly be my little baby brother Roger.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading Why he is like a real young gentleman in his tennis suit!”
Chapter 11 of Dorothy Dale's Great Secret by Margaret Penrose holds 107 sentences, grouped into 22 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 107 sentences of Dorothy Dale's Great Secret, unabridged, divided into 22 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Dorothy Dale's Great Secret by Margaret Penrose exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 107 sentences, grouped into 22 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.
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