Chapter IX of From Zone to Zone, “Out of Exile—barney’s Joke,” is here in full — 166 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter IX
Chapter IX of From Zone to Zone, “Out of Exile—barney’s Joke,” is here in full — 166 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply: “I am he. What have you?” “We are from Moscow. We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
Chapter IX of From Zone to Zone, “Out of Exile—barney’s Joke,” is here in full — 166 sentences across 34 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 male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
From this reading “We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.””
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading “The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:”
a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
From this reading “We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.””
a city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation
From this reading ““We are from Moscow.”
any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
From this reading “The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:”
a native or inhabitant of Russia
From this reading “The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:”
past form of “salute” — propose a toast to
From this reading “The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:”
traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term
From this reading “We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.””
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.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading “I am he.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “We are from Moscow.
a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
From this reading We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading “We are from Moscow.
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading What have you?”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “I am he.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I am he.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
From this reading We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
a city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation
From this reading “We are from Moscow.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
reach a destination, either real or abstract
From this reading We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
a native or inhabitant of Russia
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
past form of “salute” — propose a toast to
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Russian officer of the guard saluted and made reply:
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term
From this reading We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “We are from Moscow.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What have you?”
in the company of; together with
From this reading We have traveled day and night to reach you with a message from the Czar.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading What have you?”
Chapter 9 of From Zone to Zone by Luis Senarens holds 166 sentences, grouped into 34 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 9 holds 166 sentences of From Zone to Zone, unabridged, divided into 34 reading sections.
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