Chapter 2 of Eliza is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Eliza is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Ah!" I said, "that's the phosphates. It would be a little like that. But that's not the way to judge a port. What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
Chapter 2 of Eliza is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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any property detected by the olfactory system
From this reading “What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.”
determine the result of (a competition)
From this reading “But that's not the way to judge a port.”
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.”
the quantity that can be held in the mouth
From this reading “What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.”
plural of “phosphate” — a salt of phosphoric acid
From this reading “I said, "that's the phosphates.”
a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
From this reading “But that's not the way to judge a port.”
move by turning over or rotating
From this reading “What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.”
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading “What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.”
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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 It would be a little like that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Ah!"
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
any property detected by the olfactory system
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading It would be a little like that.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But that's not the way to judge a port.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I said, "that's the phosphates.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It would be a little like that.
determine the result of (a competition)
From this reading But that's not the way to judge a port.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading It would be a little like that.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading It would be a little like that.
the quantity that can be held in the mouth
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading But that's not the way to judge a port.
plural of “phosphate” — a salt of phosphoric acid
From this reading I said, "that's the phosphates.
a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
From this reading But that's not the way to judge a port.
move by turning over or rotating
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading I said, "that's the phosphates.
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
carry out
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It would be a little like that.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I said, "that's the phosphates.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I said, "that's the phosphates.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading But that's not the way to judge a port.
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading But that's not the way to judge a port.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading It would be a little like that.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading What you should do is to take a large mouthful and roll it round the tongue,--then you get the aroma.
Chapter 2 of Eliza by Barry Pain holds 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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 2 holds 401 sentences of Eliza, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Eliza by Barry Pain exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 401 sentences, grouped into 81 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 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 81 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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About 134 minutes of reading across 324 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Eliza, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
