Chapter 4 of Living Up to Billy is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Living Up to Billy is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Don't worry, things will come right some way. They can't be much worse. I will write you all the news. _Nan_. XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
Chapter 4 of Living Up to Billy is here in full — 403 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/80 · 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.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?”
your grandmother
information about recent and important events
From this reading “I will write you all the news.”
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading “Don't worry, things will come right some way.”
a unit of language that native speakers can identify
From this reading “XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?”
be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
From this reading “Don't worry, things will come right some way.”
(comparative of “bad”) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
From this reading “They can't be much worse.”
produce a literary work
From this reading “I will write you all the news.”
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 “They can't be much worse.”
In this reading “Don't worry, things will come right some way.”
In this reading “Don't worry, things will come right some way.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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(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 I will write you all the news.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading They can't be much worse.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They can't be much worse.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Don't worry, things will come right some way.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Don't worry, things will come right some way.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I will write you all the news.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
to a great degree or extent
From this reading They can't be much worse.
your grandmother
From this reading _Nan_.
information about recent and important events
From this reading I will write you all the news.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
precisely, exactly
From this reading Don't worry, things will come right some way.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Don't worry, things will come right some way.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I will write you all the news.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They can't be much worse.
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading Don't worry, things will come right some way.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading Don't worry, things will come right some way.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Don't worry, things will come right some way.
a unit of language that native speakers can identify
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
From this reading Don't worry, things will come right some way.
(comparative of “bad”) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
From this reading They can't be much worse.
produce a literary work
From this reading I will write you all the news.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
From this reading XXX Oh, Kate, can't you get word to Jim some way and call him off?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I will write you all the news.
Chapter 4 of Living Up to Billy by Elizabeth Cooper holds 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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 403 sentences of Living Up to Billy, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Living Up to Billy by Elizabeth Cooper exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 403 sentences, grouped into 81 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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