Chapter 16 of Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball is here in full — 263 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 16 of Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball is here in full — 263 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted. Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury. “Well, we lose,” he said. Dan nodded. “Gerald will be disappointed.”
Chapter 16 of Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball is here in full — 263 sentences across 53 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it
From this reading “GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.”
fill with distaste
From this reading “Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.”
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
From this reading “Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.”
plural of “list” — a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
From this reading “GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.”
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
From this reading “Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.”
a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
From this reading “GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.”
apply a heavy coat to
From this reading “Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.”
publicly displayed
From this reading “GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.”
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rest on for support
In this reading “Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.”
come together
In this reading “GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.”
In this reading “GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.”
In this reading “GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.”
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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 GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
from one side of something to the other
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
later than; following
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
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From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
installation from which a military force initiates operations
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “Gerald will be disappointed.”
an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
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From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
disappointingly unsuccessful
From this reading “Gerald will be disappointed.”
fill with distaste
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
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From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
past form of “lean” — to incline or bend from a vertical position
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
plural of “list” — a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading “Well, we lose,” he said.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
plural of “make” — a recognizable kind
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
inflected form of “nod” — express or signify by nodding
From this reading Dan nodded.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
apply a heavy coat to
From this reading Alf made a grimace of disgust as he leaned against the base of the plaster Mercury.
publicly displayed
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
inflected form of “run” — move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “Well, we lose,” he said.
in the near future
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “Well, we lose,” he said.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading “Well, we lose,” he said.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading GERALD MAKES A BARGAIN Dan ran across Alf in the corridor of Oxford soon after the lists were posted.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading “Gerald will be disappointed.”
Chapter 16 of Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball by Ralph Henry Barbour holds 263 sentences, grouped into 53 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.
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