Chapter 22 of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays is here in full — 961 sentences across 193 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XXII
Chapter 22 of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays is here in full — 961 sentences across 193 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HELMS. Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life. What do you know about it? Virgin! KRAKAU [_infuriated_].
Chapter 22 of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays is here in full — 961 sentences across 193 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/192 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a man who has never been married
From this reading “Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.”
plural of “helm” — steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
From this reading “HELMS.”
uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
From this reading “Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.”
marked by extreme anger
joined in matrimony
From this reading “Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.”
caught or fixed
From this reading “Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.”
impart skills or knowledge to
From this reading “Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.”
a person who has never had sex
From this reading “Virgin!”
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 “Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.”
In this reading “What do you know about it?”
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.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
a man who has never been married
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading What do you know about it?
plural of “helm” — steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
From this reading HELMS.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
marked by extreme anger
From this reading KRAKAU [_infuriated_].
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading What do you know about it?
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading What do you know about it?
an industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula
From this reading KRAKAU [_infuriated_].
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
joined in matrimony
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
caught or fixed
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
impart skills or knowledge to
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
a person who has never had sex
From this reading Virgin!
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Sure I will: I am too stuck up to let an ignorant bachelor like you teach me what's what about married life.
Chapter 22 of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Frank [Editor] Shay holds 961 sentences, grouped into 193 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 22 holds 961 sentences of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, unabridged, divided into 193 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 22 of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Frank [Editor] Shay exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 961 sentences, grouped into 193 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 193 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 193 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 22 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
Common questions about reading Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Frank [Editor] Shay on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 35466 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #36984 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #36984, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 600 minutes of reading across 7094 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 37 chapters of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
