Chapter 12 of Grey Town is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Grey Town is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SYLVIA JACKSON. "Marry? Why should I? I am perfectly happy as I am. My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
Chapter 12 of Grey Town is here in full — 190 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/38 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading “My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.”
all things; all of a situation
From this reading “My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.”
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading “My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.”
plural of “give” — the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
From this reading “My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.”
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading “I am perfectly happy as I am.”
English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
From this reading “SYLVIA JACKSON.”
take in marriage
From this reading “"Marry?”
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading “I am perfectly happy as I am.”
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the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading I am perfectly happy as I am.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading I am perfectly happy as I am.
make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
all things; all of a situation
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
plural of “give” — the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading I am perfectly happy as I am.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Why should I?
English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
From this reading SYLVIA JACKSON.
take in marriage
From this reading "Marry?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading My father dotes on me and gives me everything I ask for.
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading I am perfectly happy as I am.
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading Why should I?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading SYLVIA JACKSON.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why should I?
Chapter 12 of Grey Town by Gerald R. (Gerald Robert) Baldwin holds 190 sentences, grouped into 38 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 12 holds 190 sentences of Grey Town, unabridged, divided into 38 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Grey Town by Gerald R. (Gerald Robert) Baldwin exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 190 sentences, grouped into 38 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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