Chapter 2 of Motor Matt's Red Flyer — No. 6, April 3, 1909 is here in full — 135 sentences across 27 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Motor Matt's Red Flyer — No. 6, April 3, 1909 is here in full — 135 sentences across 27 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
STRANDED "UNCLE TOMMERS." "Help! Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar! Unc' Tawm's in de ruvver! He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
Chapter 2 of Motor Matt's Red Flyer — No. 6, April 3, 1909 is here in full — 135 sentences across 27 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/27 · 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.
at or in the front
From this reading “Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar!”
a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
From this reading “He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.”
your parents
From this reading “Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar!”
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading “He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.”
give help or assistance; be of service
From this reading “"Help!”
cause to move by striking
From this reading “He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.”
cut off or left behind
From this reading “STRANDED "UNCLE TOMMERS."”
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading “STRANDED "UNCLE TOMMERS."”
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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From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
at or in the front
From this reading Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar!
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar!
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
From this reading Unc' Tawm's in de ruvver!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
your parents
From this reading Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
give help or assistance; be of service
From this reading "Help!
cause to move by striking
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Unc' Tawm's in de ruvver!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea
From this reading Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Unc' Tawm's in de ruvver!
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar!
cut off or left behind
From this reading STRANDED "UNCLE TOMMERS."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Unc' Tawm's in de ruvver!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading STRANDED "UNCLE TOMMERS."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Unc' Tawm's in de ruvver!
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading STRANDED "UNCLE TOMMERS."
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar!
Chapter 2 of Motor Matt's Red Flyer — No. 6, April 3, 1909 by Stanley R. Matthews holds 135 sentences, grouped into 27 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 2 holds 135 sentences of Motor Matt's Red Flyer — No. 6, April 3, 1909, unabridged, divided into 27 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Motor Matt's Red Flyer — No. 6, April 3, 1909 by Stanley R. Matthews exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 135 sentences, grouped into 27 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 27 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 2 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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