Chapter 11 of Dr. Breen's Practice is here in full — 197 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Dr. Breen's Practice is here in full — 197 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.” “And you wouldn’t treat everybody so?” “I wouldn’t treat Mrs. Maynard so.” “Oh!” she said. “You treat me upon a theory.”
Chapter 11 of Dr. Breen's Practice is here in full — 197 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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every person
From this reading ““And you wouldn’t treat everybody so?””
(used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that
From this reading ““I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.””
inflected form of “mean” — mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading ““I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.””
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading ““I wouldn’t treat Mrs. Maynard so.””
a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
From this reading ““You treat me upon a theory.””
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading ““I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.””
interact in a certain way
From this reading ““And you wouldn’t treat everybody so?””
subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent
From this reading ““I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.””
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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 “You treat me upon a theory.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And you wouldn’t treat everybody so?”
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
every person
From this reading “And you wouldn’t treat everybody so?”
(used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I wouldn’t treat Mrs. Maynard so.”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “You treat me upon a theory.”
inflected form of “mean” — mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading “I wouldn’t treat Mrs. Maynard so.”
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh!” she said.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “Oh!” she said.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Oh!” she said.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading “And you wouldn’t treat everybody so?”
a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
From this reading “You treat me upon a theory.”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
interact in a certain way
From this reading “And you wouldn’t treat everybody so?”
subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
a formal word for “on”
From this reading “You treat me upon a theory.”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “And you wouldn’t treat everybody so?”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “I meant—I thought you would like to be treated frankly.”
Chapter 11 of Dr. Breen's Practice by William Dean Howells holds 197 sentences, grouped into 40 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 197 sentences of Dr. Breen's Practice, unabridged, divided into 40 reading sections.
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