Chapter 2 of On Foreign Service is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of On Foreign Service is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him. ’How did you find me in the crowd?’ I asked him. ’_Señor_ Macdonald say you like _Señor Geraldio_. All peoples know Señor Geraldio.’
Chapter 2 of On Foreign Service is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading “I asked him.”
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
From this reading “’How did you find me in the crowd?’”
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading “We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.”
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading “We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.”
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading “We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.”
the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group
From this reading “All peoples know Señor Geraldio.’”
express in words
From this reading “’_Señor_ Macdonald say you like _Señor Geraldio_.”
carry out
From this reading “We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.”
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 were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.”
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(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 All peoples know Señor Geraldio.’
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading I asked him.
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
From this reading ’How did you find me in the crowd?’
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading ’How did you find me in the crowd?’
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’_Señor_ Macdonald say you like _Señor Geraldio_.
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’How did you find me in the crowd?’
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I asked him.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading ’How did you find me in the crowd?’
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading All peoples know Señor Geraldio.’
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading ’_Señor_ Macdonald say you like _Señor Geraldio_.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’_Señor_ Macdonald say you like _Señor Geraldio_.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading ’How did you find me in the crowd?’
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group
From this reading All peoples know Señor Geraldio.’
express in words
From this reading ’_Señor_ Macdonald say you like _Señor Geraldio_.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ’_Señor_ Macdonald say you like _Señor Geraldio_.
carry out
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ’How did you find me in the crowd?’
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
which person or people
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading We were jolly glad to find any one who would take us to him.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ’How did you find me in the crowd?’
Chapter 2 of On Foreign Service by T. T. (Thomas Tendron) Jeans holds 421 sentences, grouped into 85 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 421 sentences of On Foreign Service, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
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