Chapter 3 of Geography and Plays is here in full — 1605 sentences across 321 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Geography and Plays is here in full — 1605 sentences across 321 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Why do you play in letters. Because we are English. Is it an English custom. It is not an American. Oh yes I remember you did mention.
Chapter 3 of Geography and Plays is here in full — 1605 sentences across 321 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 native or inhabitant of the United States
From this reading “It is not an American.”
for the reason that
From this reading “Because we are English.”
accepted or habitual practice
From this reading “Is it an English custom.”
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading “Because we are English.”
the literary culture
From this reading “Why do you play in letters.”
make reference to
From this reading “Oh yes I remember you did mention.”
participate in games or sport
From this reading “Why do you play in letters.”
To recall to mind.
From this reading “Oh yes I remember you did mention.”
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.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
a native or inhabitant of the United States
From this reading It is not an American.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Is it an English custom.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Because we are English.
for the reason that
From this reading Because we are English.
accepted or habitual practice
From this reading Is it an English custom.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading Oh yes I remember you did mention.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Why do you play in letters.
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading Because we are English.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Oh yes I remember you did mention.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Why do you play in letters.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Is it an English custom.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Is it an English custom.
the literary culture
From this reading Why do you play in letters.
make reference to
From this reading Oh yes I remember you did mention.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading It is not an American.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh yes I remember you did mention.
participate in games or sport
From this reading Why do you play in letters.
To recall to mind.
From this reading Oh yes I remember you did mention.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Because we are English.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why do you play in letters.
an affirmative
From this reading Oh yes I remember you did mention.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Why do you play in letters.
Chapter 3 of Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein holds 1605 sentences, grouped into 321 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 1605 sentences of Geography and Plays, unabridged, divided into 321 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 1605 sentences, grouped into 321 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 321 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 321 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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