Chapter 19 of Looking Forward is here in full — 109 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 19 of Looking Forward is here in full — 109 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Wireless Telegraphy. The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation. Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages. Messages received and sent at any time en route. Collisions at sea reported at once.
Chapter 19 of Looking Forward is here in full — 109 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “advantage” — the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
From this reading “The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.”
plural of “collision” — (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
From this reading “Collisions at sea reported at once.”
transmit information
From this reading “Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.”
past form of “enable” — render capable or able for some task
From this reading “Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.”
plural of “message” — a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
From this reading “Messages received and sent at any time en route.”
the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
From this reading “The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.”
plural of “voyage” — an act of traveling by water
From this reading “Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.”
medium for communication
From this reading “Wireless Telegraphy.”
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.
on a route to some place
In this reading “Messages received and sent at any time en route.”
without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
In this reading “Collisions at sea reported at once.”
In this reading “The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.”
In this reading “Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.”
perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
In this reading “Collisions at sea reported at once.”
In this reading “Messages received and sent at any time en route.”
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plural of “advantage” — the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
From this reading The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
plural of “collision” — (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
From this reading Collisions at sea reported at once.
transmit information
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
all through a period, or at some point within it
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
half the width of an em
From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
past form of “enable” — render capable or able for some task
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.
plural of “message” — a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
From this reading The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.
on one occasion
From this reading Collisions at sea reported at once.
conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
made known or told about; especially presented in a formal account
From this reading Collisions at sea reported at once.
an established line of travel or access
From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
From this reading Collisions at sea reported at once.
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From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
plural of “ship” — a vessel that carries passengers or freight
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
the land along the edge of a body of water
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire
From this reading Wireless Telegraphy.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The great advantages of wireless telegraphy in navigation.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading Messages received and sent at any time en route.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
plural of “voyage” — an act of traveling by water
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
medium for communication
From this reading Wireless Telegraphy.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Ships are enabled to communicate with shore during voyages.
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