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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
badly
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Nothing more unlovely could be imagined.
besideprepositionUS /bɪˈsaɪd/
next to; at the side of
From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
bricklayers
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
builded
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
called
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
carpenters
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
Chicago
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
coal
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
cobblestone
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
completenounUS /complete/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The street was complete in its hideousness.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Nothing more unlovely could be imagined.
family
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
fantastic
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
freeadjectiveUS /friː/
acting without enough restraint or discipline
From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
Given
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
hand
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
hideousness
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From this reading The street was complete in its hideousness.
houses
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
hundreds
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
imagined
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From this reading Nothing more unlovely could be imagined.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
inconvenience
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
indiscriminate
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
inspiring
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The street was complete in its hideousness.
land
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
live
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
lived
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
lot
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
McGregor
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
mining
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
more
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From this reading Nothing more unlovely could be imagined.
namenounUS /name/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
NothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Nothing more unlovely could be imagined.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
once
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
out
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
owned
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
Place
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
road
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
side
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
street
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
streets
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
thereabout
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
touched
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
town
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
trained
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
unlovely
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From this reading Nothing more unlovely could be imagined.
unsightliness
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From this reading Given a free hand an indiscriminate lot of badly trained carpenters and bricklayers had builded houses beside the cobblestone road that touched the fantastic in their unsightliness and inconvenience.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
west
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From this reading The great west side of Chicago has hundreds of such streets and the coal mining town out of which McGregor had come was more inspiring as a place in which to live.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
Wycliff
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From this reading The street in which McGregor lived in Chicago was called Wycliff Place, after a family of that name that had once owned the land thereabout.
