Chapter 3 of Experience is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter III
Chapter 3 of Experience is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile. ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’ ’Eighteen. Why, darling?’ ’Just my age now.’
Chapter 3 of Experience is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
how long something has existed
From this reading “’Just my age now.’”
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
From this reading “’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’”
a special loved one
From this reading “Why, darling?’”
being one more than seventeen
From this reading “’Eighteen.”
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
From this reading “As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.”
joined in matrimony
From this reading “’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’”
support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
From this reading “As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.”
a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
From this reading “As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.”
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.
return home
In this reading “As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.”
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.
how long something has existed
From this reading ’Just my age now.’
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
a special loved one
From this reading Why, darling?’
being one more than seventeen
From this reading ’Eighteen.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
and nothing more
From this reading ’Just my age now.’
joined in matrimony
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading ’Just my age now.’
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading ’Just my age now.’
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
at the time that
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why, darling?’
in the company of; together with
From this reading As father and I went home I spoke to him with subtlety and with guile.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ’Daddy, how old was mother when you married her?’
Chapter 3 of Experience by Catherine (Catherine M.) Cotton holds 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 3 holds 400 sentences of Experience, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Experience by Catherine (Catherine M.) Cotton exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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