Chapter 1 of Gloria and Treeless Street is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Gloria and Treeless Street is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
How am I to drive? Uncle Em, see here. I want a runabout--wait, please wait! A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself. I'll take you some of the time.
Chapter 1 of Gloria and Treeless Street is here in full — 164 sentences across 33 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.
operate or control a vehicle
From this reading “How am I to drive?”
pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
From this reading “A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.”
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading “I want a runabout--wait, please wait!”
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading “A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.”
an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat
From this reading “I want a runabout--wait, please wait!”
reflecting light
From this reading “A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.”
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading “Uncle Em, see here.”
stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
From this reading “I want a runabout--wait, please wait!”
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 I want a runabout--wait, please wait!
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading How am I to drive?
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.
operate or control a vehicle
From this reading How am I to drive?
a quad with a square body
From this reading Uncle Em, see here.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Uncle Em, see here.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How am I to drive?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading How am I to drive?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I'll take you some of the time.
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.
pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
From this reading A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I'll take you some of the time.
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading I want a runabout--wait, please wait!
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.
an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat
From this reading I want a runabout--wait, please wait!
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Uncle Em, see here.
reflecting light
From this reading A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading I'll take you some of the time.
carry out
From this reading I'll take you some of the time.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I'll take you some of the time.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading I'll take you some of the time.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading How am I to drive?
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading Uncle Em, see here.
stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
From this reading I want a runabout--wait, please wait!
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading I want a runabout--wait, please wait!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I'll take you some of the time.
Chapter 1 of Gloria and Treeless Street by Annie Hamilton Donnell holds 164 sentences, grouped into 33 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 1 holds 164 sentences of Gloria and Treeless Street, unabridged, divided into 33 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Gloria and Treeless Street by Annie Hamilton Donnell exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 164 sentences, grouped into 33 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.
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About 88 minutes of reading across 213 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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