Chapter 4 of Mixed Pickles is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Mixed Pickles is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.” “Ruth! Where?” “Only a mental one, dear. Thee must not take me too literally.
Chapter 4 of Mixed Pickles is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
dearly loved
From this reading ““Only a mental one, dear.”
possessive form of “hornet” — large stinging paper wasp
in a literal sense
From this reading “Thee must not take me too literally.”
involving the mind or an intellectual process
From this reading ““Only a mental one, dear.”
a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
From this reading ““I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.””
United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
From this reading ““Ruth!”
being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
From this reading ““I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.””
an old word for “you”, as the object, speaking to one person
From this reading “Thee must not take me too literally.”
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.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 “I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.”
dearly loved
From this reading “Only a mental one, dear.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.”
possessive form of “hornet” — large stinging paper wasp
From this reading “I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.”
in a literal sense
From this reading Thee must not take me too literally.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Thee must not take me too literally.
involving the mind or an intellectual process
From this reading “Only a mental one, dear.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading “I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.”
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading Thee must not take me too literally.
a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
From this reading “I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Thee must not take me too literally.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading “Only a mental one, dear.
and nothing more
From this reading “Only a mental one, dear.
United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
From this reading “Ruth!
being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
From this reading “I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.”
carry out
From this reading Thee must not take me too literally.
an old word for “you”, as the object, speaking to one person
From this reading Thee must not take me too literally.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading Thee must not take me too literally.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading “I have stirred up a hornet’s nest, mother.”
in or at the place that
From this reading Where?”
Chapter 4 of Mixed Pickles by Evelyn Raymond holds 107 sentences, grouped into 22 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 4 holds 107 sentences of Mixed Pickles, unabridged, divided into 22 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Mixed Pickles by Evelyn Raymond exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 107 sentences, grouped into 22 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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