Chapter 16 of Memoirs of a Country Doll. Written by Herself is here in full — 24 sentences across 5 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 16 of Memoirs of a Country Doll. Written by Herself is here in full — 24 sentences across 5 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MY NEXT MOTHER. We then drove home. My mother's name was Garafelina Shoppard. They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people. My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
Chapter 16 of Memoirs of a Country Doll. Written by Herself is here in full — 24 sentences across 5 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
From this reading “We then drove home.”
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading “My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.”
the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
From this reading “My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.”
possessive form of “mother” — a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading “My mother's name was Garafelina Shoppard.”
immediately following in time or order
From this reading “MY NEXT MOTHER.”
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading “My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.”
an exchange of ideas via conversation
From this reading “My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.”
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
From this reading “They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.”
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 “We then drove home.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
(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 My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
From this reading We then drove home.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My mother's name was Garafelina Shoppard.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading We then drove home.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading MY NEXT MOTHER.
possessive form of “mother” — a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading My mother's name was Garafelina Shoppard.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading MY NEXT MOTHER.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading My mother's name was Garafelina Shoppard.
immediately following in time or order
From this reading MY NEXT MOTHER.
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.
proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)
From this reading They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading My mother's name was Garafelina Shoppard.
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
From this reading They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.
an exchange of ideas via conversation
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading We then drove home.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading My little mother was all the time talking to me about money, and making a show.
precisely as stated
From this reading They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
From this reading They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading My mother's name was Garafelina Shoppard.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We then drove home.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading They were a very vulgar, purse-proud, stuck-up people.
Chapter 16 of Memoirs of a Country Doll. Written by Herself by Mary Curtis holds 24 sentences, grouped into 5 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 16 holds 24 sentences of Memoirs of a Country Doll. Written by Herself, unabridged, divided into 5 reading sections.
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