Chapter 27 of Little Alfred is here in full — 24 sentences across 5 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 27 of Little Alfred is here in full — 24 sentences across 5 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE ROBINS. O, they are sweet, pretty things! Flying round with rapid wings. FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN. ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.
Chapter 27 of Little Alfred is here in full — 24 sentences across 5 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/4 · 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 “flower” — a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading “FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN.”
moving swiftly
From this reading “Flying round with rapid wings.”
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
From this reading “ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.”
done or occurring in a brief period of time
From this reading “Flying round with rapid wings.”
plural of “robin” — small Old World songbird with a reddish breast
From this reading “THE ROBINS.”
the month following August and preceding October
From this reading “ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.”
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading “O, they are sweet, pretty things!”
a means of flight or ascent
From this reading “Flying round with rapid wings.”
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 “Flying round with rapid wings.”
In this reading “O, they are sweet, pretty things!”
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From this reading ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading O, they are sweet, pretty things!
plural of “child” — a young person of either sex
From this reading FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN.
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.
plural of “flower” — a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
From this reading FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN.
moving swiftly
From this reading Flying round with rapid wings.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O, they are sweet, pretty things!
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.
an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
From this reading ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
From this reading O, they are sweet, pretty things!
done or occurring in a brief period of time
From this reading Flying round with rapid wings.
plural of “robin” — small Old World songbird with a reddish breast
From this reading THE ROBINS.
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading Flying round with rapid wings.
the month following August and preceding October
From this reading ONE sweet September morning, Alfred’s papa rose early.
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading O, they are sweet, pretty things!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE ROBINS.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading O, they are sweet, pretty things!
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading O, they are sweet, pretty things!
a means of flight or ascent
From this reading Flying round with rapid wings.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Flying round with rapid wings.
Chapter 27 of Little Alfred by L. A. (Lydia Austin), -1879 Holdich holds 24 sentences, grouped into 5 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 27 holds 24 sentences of Little Alfred, unabridged, divided into 5 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 27 of Little Alfred by L. A. (Lydia Austin), -1879 Holdich exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 24 sentences, grouped into 5 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 5 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 27 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 97 minutes of reading across 233 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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