Chapter 3 of Grim Tales is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter III
Chapter 3 of Grim Tales is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Come to me at once. I am dying. You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire." There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station. I took it.
Chapter 3 of Grim Tales is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 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.
in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
From this reading “I am dying.”
be a farmer; work as a farmer
From this reading “You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."”
an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank
From this reading “You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."”
(superlative of “near” or “close”) within the shortest distance
From this reading “There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.”
a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
From this reading “There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.”
inflected form of “take” — carry out
From this reading “I took it.”
create by training and teaching
From this reading “There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.”
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
From this reading “There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
In this reading “"Come to me at once.”
In this reading “There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.”
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 There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading I am dying.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading "Come to me at once.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading "Come to me at once.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."
in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
From this reading I am dying.
be a farmer; work as a farmer
From this reading You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I am dying.
an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank
From this reading You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I took it.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading "Come to me at once.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."
(superlative of “near” or “close”) within the shortest distance
From this reading There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
on one occasion
From this reading "Come to me at once.
a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
From this reading There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "Come to me at once.
inflected form of “take” — carry out
From this reading I took it.
create by training and teaching
From this reading There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
From this reading There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was a train at twelve to Marple, the nearest station.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You must come.--IDA.--Apinshaw Farm, Mellor, Derbyshire."
Chapter 3 of Grim Tales by E. (Edith) Nesbit holds 417 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 3 holds 417 sentences of Grim Tales, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Grim Tales by E. (Edith) Nesbit exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 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 3 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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About 137 minutes of reading across 330 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Grim Tales section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 4 chapters of Grim Tales to begin.
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Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in Grim Tales, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
