Chapter 28 of Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays is here in full — 115 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 28 of Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays is here in full — 115 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!" Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord. "Someone's coming!" With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door. They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
Chapter 28 of Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays is here in full — 115 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
From this reading “They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!”
a straight line connecting two points on a curve
From this reading “Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.”
your grandmother
From this reading “NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!"”
a town in central Arizona
From this reading “Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.”
a native or inhabitant of Scotland
From this reading “Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.”
possessive form of “someone” — a human being
From this reading “"Someone's coming!"”
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
From this reading “They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!”
plural of “villager” — one who has lived in a village most of their life
From this reading “They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!”
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In this reading “With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.”
obtain, especially accidentally
In this reading “NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!"”
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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 all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
(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 They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
a straight line connecting two points on a curve
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!"
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading "Someone's coming!"
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
past form of “enter” — to come or go into
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
every person
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!"
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
an instinctive motive
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!"
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
the location of something surrounded by other things
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
your grandmother
From this reading NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!"
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
used of mouth or eyes
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
have ownership or possession of
From this reading NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!"
a town in central Arizona
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
cause to move by pulling
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
located or moved above the surround or above the normal position
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
a native or inhabitant of Scotland
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
possessive form of “someone” — a human being
From this reading "Someone's coming!"
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Dr. Prescott gave the command as the old Scotsman raised his arm to pull the chord.
in the direction of
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
moved around an axis or center
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
plural of “villager” — one who has lived in a village most of their life
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
From this reading NAN COMES INTO HER OWN "Wait!"
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
in the company of; together with
From this reading With one impulse, everyone in the room turned toward the door.
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading They were all tense as it was opened from without and a group of villagers entered with Robert Hugh Blake in their midst!
Chapter 28 of Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Annie Roe Carr holds 115 sentences, grouped into 23 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 28 holds 115 sentences of Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays, unabridged, divided into 23 reading sections.
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