Chapter 28 of Main-Travelled Roads is here in full — 217 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 28 of Main-Travelled Roads is here in full — 217 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Hello, Jim! How are ye, so early in the morning?" "Blessed near used up." "That so? What's the matter?"
Chapter 28 of Main-Travelled Roads is here in full — 217 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/43 · 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.
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
From this reading “"Blessed near used up."”
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading “How are ye, so early in the morning?"”
an expression of greeting
From this reading “"Hello, Jim!”
a vaguely specified concern
From this reading “What's the matter?"”
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading “How are ye, so early in the morning?"”
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading “"Blessed near used up."”
employed in accomplishing something
From this reading “"Blessed near used up."”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading How are ye, so early in the morning?"
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
From this reading "Blessed near used up."
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading How are ye, so early in the morning?"
an expression of greeting
From this reading "Hello, Jim!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How are ye, so early in the morning?"
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading How are ye, so early in the morning?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Hello, Jim!
a vaguely specified concern
From this reading What's the matter?"
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading How are ye, so early in the morning?"
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading "Blessed near used up."
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading How are ye, so early in the morning?"
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "That so?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading How are ye, so early in the morning?"
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading "Blessed near used up."
employed in accomplishing something
From this reading "Blessed near used up."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading What's the matter?"
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading How are ye, so early in the morning?"
Chapter 28 of Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland holds 217 sentences, grouped into 44 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 28 holds 217 sentences of Main-Travelled Roads, unabridged, divided into 44 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 28 of Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 217 sentences, grouped into 44 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 44 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 44 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 28 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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