Chapter 6 of Mary Marie is here in full — 710 sentences across 142 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Mary Marie is here in full — 710 sentences across 142 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN. Well, I came last night. Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station. And, my! wasn't I glad to see them? Well, I just guess I was!
Chapter 6 of Mary Marie is here in full — 710 sentences across 142 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
From this reading “Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.”
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading “Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.”
state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading “WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN.”
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading “And, my! wasn't I glad to see them?”
the father of your father or mother
From this reading “Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.”
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading “Well, I just guess I was!”
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading “Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.”
a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
From this reading “Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.”
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.
anew
From this reading WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN.
(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 Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN.
the two together, not just one
From this reading WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Well, I came last night.
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading And, my! wasn't I glad to see them?
the father of your father or mother
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading Well, I just guess I was!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN.
and nothing more
From this reading Well, I just guess I was!
immediately past
From this reading Well, I came last night.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
inflected form of “meet” — come together
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading And, my! wasn't I glad to see them?
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading Well, I came last night.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading And, my! wasn't I glad to see them?
a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattie and Baby Lester all met me at the station.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading And, my! wasn't I glad to see them?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading And, my! wasn't I glad to see them?
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Well, I just guess I was!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading And, my! wasn't I glad to see them?
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading Well, I came last night.
at the time that
From this reading WHEN I AM BOTH TOGETHER BOSTON AGAIN.
Chapter 6 of Mary Marie by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter holds 710 sentences, grouped into 142 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 6 holds 710 sentences of Mary Marie, unabridged, divided into 142 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Mary Marie by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 710 sentences, grouped into 142 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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