Chapter 17 of Dusty answer is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of Dusty answer is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit. I’d love to meet your mother.’ ‘Oh, good!’ He beamed. ‘I’d love to show you my home.
Chapter 17 of Dusty answer is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
past form of “beam” — smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression
From this reading “He beamed.”
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading “‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.”
cause to be bored
From this reading “‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.”
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “‘I’d love to show you my home.”
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading “I’d love to meet your mother.’”
come together
From this reading “I’d love to meet your mother.’”
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading “I’d love to meet your mother.’”
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading “‘I’d love to show you my home.”
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 “‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.”
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past form of “beam” — smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression
From this reading He beamed.
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading ‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.
cause to be bored
From this reading ‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading ‘Oh, good!’
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He beamed.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading ‘I’d love to show you my home.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I’d love to meet your mother.’
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading ‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading ‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading I’d love to meet your mother.’
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading ‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.
come together
From this reading I’d love to meet your mother.’
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading I’d love to meet your mother.’
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading ‘I’d love to show you my home.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading ‘Oh, good!’
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading ‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading ‘I’d love to show you my home.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I’d love to meet your mother.’
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘It wouldn’t bore me one little bit.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ‘I’d love to show you my home.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I’d love to meet your mother.’
Chapter 17 of Dusty answer by Rosamond Lehmann holds 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 17 holds 410 sentences of Dusty answer, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 17 of Dusty answer by Rosamond Lehmann exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 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.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 17 can be played aloud in United States English.
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