Chapter 5 of Hay fever is here in full — 369 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Hay fever is here in full — 369 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well. JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might. (_She pours him out some._) There you are. SANDY (_anxiously_): What do I do? JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
Chapter 5 of Hay fever is here in full — 369 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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with anxiety or apprehension
a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
From this reading “SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.”
take in liquids
From this reading “JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.”
being directly across from each other; facing
From this reading “JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.”
third-person singular of “pour” — cause to run
From this reading “(_She pours him out some._) There you are.”
of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown
From this reading “SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.”
the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
From this reading “JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.”
the highest or uppermost side of anything
From this reading “JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.”
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.
In this reading “JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.”
In this reading “JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might.”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
with anxiety or apprehension
From this reading SANDY (_anxiously_): What do I do?
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading (_She pours him out some._) There you are.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might.
a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
From this reading SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
take in liquids
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading (_She pours him out some._) There you are.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading SANDY (_anxiously_): What do I do?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might.
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
being directly across from each other; facing
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading (_She pours him out some._) There you are.
by chance
From this reading SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.
third-person singular of “pour” — cause to run
From this reading (_She pours him out some._) There you are.
of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown
From this reading SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading (_She pours him out some._) There you are.
a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading (_She pours him out some._) There you are.
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
in or at that place or location
From this reading (_She pours him out some._) There you are.
the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
tested and proved useful or correct
From this reading JACKIE: I’ve never tried coffee, but it might.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
the highest or uppermost side of anything
From this reading JACKIE: Tip it up and drink from the opposite side, sort of upside down.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading SANDY (_anxiously_): What do I do?
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading SANDY: Perhaps coffee would do as well.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading (_She pours him out some._) There you are.
Chapter 5 of Hay fever by Noël Coward holds 369 sentences, grouped into 74 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 5 holds 369 sentences of Hay fever, unabridged, divided into 74 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Hay fever by Noël Coward exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 369 sentences, grouped into 74 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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