Chapter 3 of Free Air is here in full — 289 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Free Air is here in full — 289 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh! Such an auto! Look, it break my harness a'ready! Two dollar that cost you to mend it. De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.
Chapter 3 of Free Air is here in full — 289 sentences across 58 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.
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading “Such an auto!”
terminate
From this reading “Look, it break my harness a'ready!”
the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
From this reading “Two dollar that cost you to mend it.”
the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
From this reading “Two dollar that cost you to mend it.”
put a harness
From this reading “Look, it break my harness a'ready!”
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
From this reading “Two dollar that cost you to mend it.”
a water-resistant coat
From this reading “A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh!”
past form of “storm” — behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
From this reading “De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.”
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.
a teenager or a young adult male
In this reading “A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh!”
In this reading “Two dollar that cost you to mend it.”
In this reading “De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Look, it break my harness a'ready!
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Such an auto!
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading Such an auto!
terminate
From this reading Look, it break my harness a'ready!
the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
From this reading Two dollar that cost you to mend it.
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
From this reading De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.
the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
From this reading Two dollar that cost you to mend it.
put a harness
From this reading Look, it break my harness a'ready!
of comparatively great physical weight or density
From this reading De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Look, it break my harness a'ready!
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading Look, it break my harness a'ready!
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh!
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
From this reading Two dollar that cost you to mend it.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Look, it break my harness a'ready!
a water-resistant coat
From this reading A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh!
past form of “storm” — behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
From this reading De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Such an auto!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Two dollar that cost you to mend it.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Two dollar that cost you to mend it.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading Two dollar that cost you to mend it.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Two dollar that cost you to mend it.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT "Huh!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading De auto iss too heavy!" stormed Zolzac.
Chapter 3 of Free Air by Sinclair Lewis holds 289 sentences, grouped into 58 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 289 sentences of Free Air, unabridged, divided into 58 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Free Air by Sinclair Lewis exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 289 sentences, grouped into 58 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 58 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 58 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 3 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.
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About 512 minutes of reading across 1230 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Free Air section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Free Air, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
