Chapter 1 of Jerry is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Jerry is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs. Just Patty. Patty and Priscilla. The Four Pools Mystery. The Wheat Princess.
Chapter 1 of Jerry is here in full — 192 sentences across 39 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.
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
From this reading “_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.”
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
From this reading “The Four Pools Mystery.”
small flat mass of chopped food
From this reading “Just Patty.”
plural of “pool” — an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
From this reading “The Four Pools Mystery.”
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading “The Wheat Princess.”
always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences
From this reading “_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.”
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
From this reading “_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.”
annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
From this reading “The Wheat Princess.”
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 Patty and Priscilla.
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
From this reading The Four Pools Mystery.
and nothing more
From this reading Just Patty.
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
From this reading The Four Pools Mystery.
small flat mass of chopped food
From this reading Just Patty.
plural of “pool” — an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
From this reading The Four Pools Mystery.
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading The Wheat Princess.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Patty and Priscilla.
Identical; not different.
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
From this reading The Wheat Princess.
in the company of; together with
From this reading _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Daddy-Long-Legs.
Chapter 1 of Jerry by Jean Webster holds 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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 1 holds 192 sentences of Jerry, unabridged, divided into 39 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Jerry by Jean Webster exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 192 sentences, grouped into 39 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 39 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 39 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.
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