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HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly? Dare you defy me? MRS GEORGE. If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping]. HOTCHKISS.
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a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].”
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading “If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].”
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].”
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly?
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly?
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading Dare you defy me?
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading Dare you defy me?
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly?
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From this reading MRS GEORGE.
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Dare you defy me?
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From this reading MRS GEORGE.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly?
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly?
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
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From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading If you ask me another question I shant be able to keep my hands off you [she dashes distractedly past him to the other end of the table, her fingers crisping].
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading HOTCHKISS [admiring her] Are you really game, Polly?
