Chapter 1 of Kittens and Cats: A First Reader is here in full — 381 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Kittens and Cats: A First Reader is here in full — 381 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
See https:// I am the Queen! the Queen! Come, all you kittens and cats. Hear what I have to say. To-morrow I give a grand party.
Chapter 1 of Kittens and Cats: A First Reader is here in full — 381 sentences across 77 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/76 · 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.
plural of “cat” — feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
From this reading “Come, all you kittens and cats.”
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading “To-morrow I give a grand party.”
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
From this reading “To-morrow I give a grand party.”
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading “Hear what I have to say.”
plural of “kitten” — young domestic cat
From this reading “Come, all you kittens and cats.”
an organization to gain political power
From this reading “To-morrow I give a grand party.”
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
From this reading “I am the Queen! the Queen!”
express in words
From this reading “Hear what I have to say.”
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.
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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 To-morrow I give a grand party.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Come, all you kittens and cats.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading I am the Queen! the Queen!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Come, all you kittens and cats.
plural of “cat” — feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
From this reading Come, all you kittens and cats.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come, all you kittens and cats.
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading To-morrow I give a grand party.
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
From this reading To-morrow I give a grand party.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Hear what I have to say.
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading Hear what I have to say.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading See https://
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I am the Queen! the Queen!
plural of “kitten” — young domestic cat
From this reading Come, all you kittens and cats.
an organization to gain political power
From this reading To-morrow I give a grand party.
the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
From this reading I am the Queen! the Queen!
express in words
From this reading Hear what I have to say.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading See https://
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I am the Queen! the Queen!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Hear what I have to say.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading To-morrow I give a grand party.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Hear what I have to say.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Come, all you kittens and cats.
Chapter 1 of Kittens and Cats: A First Reader by Eulalie Osgood Grover holds 381 sentences, grouped into 77 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 381 sentences of Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, unabridged, divided into 77 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Kittens and Cats: A First Reader by Eulalie Osgood Grover exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 381 sentences, grouped into 77 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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