Chapter 4 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl is here in full — 430 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl is here in full — 430 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Oh, beg pardon. I thought you knew that.” “No, I didn’t. I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.” Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
Chapter 4 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl is here in full — 430 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/86 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading ““Oh, beg pardon.”
a short stout club used primarily by policemen
From this reading “I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.””
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
From this reading “I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.””
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
From this reading “I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.””
of a light brown or yellowish brown color
From this reading “Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?”
any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
From this reading “I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.””
accept an excuse for
From this reading ““Oh, beg pardon.”
inflected form of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading “I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.””
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 “Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?”
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 I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
later than; following
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
call upon in supplication; entreat
From this reading “Oh, beg pardon.
a short stout club used primarily by policemen
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
the two together, not just one
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
a male with the same parents as someone else
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “No, I didn’t.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
of a light brown or yellowish brown color
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I thought you knew that.”
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
inflected form of “know” — be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading I thought you knew that.”
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
not any; not one
From this reading “No, I didn’t.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh, beg pardon.
any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
accept an excuse for
From this reading “Oh, beg pardon.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I thought you knew that.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading I thought you knew that.”
up to a particular time
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
a source of difficulty
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why had both her father and Hazel asked to come here after the trouble Hazel’s brother had had?
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
inflected form of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading I knew nothing about it till Dad wrote me he was coming to Palmetto Island, and it would be a grand place for me and Billy to live.”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I thought you knew that.”
Chapter 4 of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl by Ruby Lorraine Radford holds 430 sentences, grouped into 86 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 4 holds 430 sentences of Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
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