Chapter 6 of Northern Lights is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Northern Lights is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"You can marry and stay here, when I go. You are twenty. I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen. You can marry. There are men.
Chapter 6 of Northern Lights is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 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.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading “I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.”
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading “"You can marry and stay here, when I go.”
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading “I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.”
take in marriage
From this reading “"You can marry and stay here, when I go.”
the force of workers available
From this reading “There are men.”
being one more than sixteen
From this reading “I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.”
stay the same; remain in a certain state
From this reading “"You can marry and stay here, when I go.”
the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
From this reading “You are twenty.”
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 “"You can marry and stay here, when I go.”
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.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading You are twenty.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.
take in marriage
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
the force of workers available
From this reading There are men.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.
being one more than sixteen
From this reading I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.
stay the same; remain in a certain state
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There are men.
the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
From this reading You are twenty.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.
at the time that
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "You can marry and stay here, when I go.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I had my man, your father, when I was seventeen.
Chapter 6 of Northern Lights by Gilbert Parker holds 411 sentences, grouped into 83 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 411 sentences of Northern Lights, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Northern Lights by Gilbert Parker exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 411 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 6 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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Words and structures a reader meets early in Northern Lights, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
