Chapter 11 of Green Doors is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of Green Doors is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Oh, need you? Don’t. It’s too silly, on a vacation! But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days! Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.
Chapter 11 of Green Doors is here in full — 418 sentences across 84 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.
used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
From this reading “But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!”
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!”
possessive form of “dick” — someone who is a detective
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading “Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.”
a condition requiring relief
From this reading ““Oh, need you?”
ludicrous, foolish
From this reading “It’s too silly, on a vacation!”
leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
From this reading “It’s too silly, on a vacation!”
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
From this reading “Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.”
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In this reading “But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!”
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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 It’s too silly, on a vacation!
used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
From this reading But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!
the time during which someone's life continues
From this reading But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!
possessive form of “dick” — someone who is a detective
From this reading Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Don’t.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It’s too silly, on a vacation!
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.
a condition requiring relief
From this reading “Oh, need you?
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh, need you?
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading It’s too silly, on a vacation!
inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.
ludicrous, foolish
From this reading It’s too silly, on a vacation!
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading But then it’s too silly to call it a vacation, anyway—a few days!
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading It’s too silly, on a vacation!
leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
From this reading It’s too silly, on a vacation!
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
From this reading Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.
an affirmative
From this reading Yes—I’ve seen myself Dick’s worried.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Oh, need you?
Chapter 11 of Green Doors by Ethel Cook Eliot holds 418 sentences, grouped into 84 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 11 holds 418 sentences of Green Doors, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of Green Doors by Ethel Cook Eliot exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 418 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 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 11 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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How to work through Green Doors section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Green Doors, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
