Chapter 1 of Little Prudy's Captain Horace is here in full — 482 sentences across 97 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Little Prudy's Captain Horace is here in full — 482 sentences across 97 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
I. Making Candy II. Camping Out III. Taking a Journey IV. At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI. Susie and Prudy VII.
Chapter 1 of Little Prudy's Captain Horace is here in full — 482 sentences across 97 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.
the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
From this reading “Camping Out III.”
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
From this reading “I. Making Candy II.”
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading “At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.”
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading “At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.”
the father of your father or mother
From this reading “At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.”
undertake a journey or trip
From this reading “Taking a Journey IV.”
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading “I. Making Candy II.”
the act of someone who picks up or takes something
From this reading “Taking a Journey IV.”
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.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Taking a Journey IV.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Susie and Prudy VII.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.
the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
From this reading Camping Out III.
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
From this reading I. Making Candy II.
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.
the father of your father or mother
From this reading At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I. Making Candy II.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading I. Making Candy II.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading Camping Out III.
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
From this reading Taking a Journey IV.
undertake a journey or trip
From this reading Taking a Journey IV.
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading I. Making Candy II.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Camping Out III.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Susie and Prudy VII.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Susie and Prudy VII.
the act of someone who picks up or takes something
From this reading Taking a Journey IV.
a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt
From this reading At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
From this reading At Grandpa Parlin’s V. Captain of a Company VI.
the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
From this reading Susie and Prudy VII.
Chapter 1 of Little Prudy's Captain Horace by Sophie May holds 482 sentences, grouped into 97 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 482 sentences of Little Prudy's Captain Horace, unabridged, divided into 97 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Little Prudy's Captain Horace by Sophie May exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 482 sentences, grouped into 97 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 97 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 1 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 118 minutes of reading across 284 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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