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Chapter XXIX
THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over. "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going. We have no money. We've got to get work somehow. I don't know now why we came."
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “We have no money.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “"To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.”
above and across; more than
From this reading “THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “"To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.”
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From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
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From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
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From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
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From this reading We've got to get work somehow.
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From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
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From this reading We've got to get work somehow.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading We have no money.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
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From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
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From this reading We have no money.
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From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
not any; not one
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
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From this reading I don't know now why we came."
above and across; more than
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
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From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
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From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
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From this reading We've got to get work somehow.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE PRISONERS I had no great difficulty in persuading the immigrants to rest over.
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From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We have no money.
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From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
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From this reading We've got to get work somehow.
in or at the place that
From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
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From this reading I don't know now why we came."
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From this reading We've got to get work somehow.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "To tell you the truth," the narrator confided to me, "I don't know where we're going.
