Chapter 9 of Pals is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter IX
Chapter 9 of Pals is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them. They’re near by. At ony moment we micht sicht them. Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men. Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
Chapter 9 of Pals 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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an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading “Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.”
a line of units following one after another
From this reading “Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.”
having unexpected good fortune
From this reading “"Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.”
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “"Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.”
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading “Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.”
the force of workers available
From this reading “Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.”
a particular point in time
From this reading “At ony moment we micht sicht them.”
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading “They’re near by.”
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 “"Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.”
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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 Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.
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From this reading "Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At ony moment we micht sicht them.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading They’re near by.
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
a line of units following one after another
From this reading Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.
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From this reading Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.
the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
From this reading Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.
having unexpected good fortune
From this reading "Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
the force of workers available
From this reading Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading At ony moment we micht sicht them.
a particular point in time
From this reading At ony moment we micht sicht them.
used to form the superlative
From this reading "Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading They’re near by.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading At ony moment we micht sicht them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading At ony moment we micht sicht them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Captain, ye’ll tak seeven men and I’ll keep the ithers.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading "Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They’re near by.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading At ony moment we micht sicht them.
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From this reading "Most fortunate we’ve got ahint them.
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From this reading Ye’ll fa’ into a doubble column, men.
Chapter 9 of Pals by Joseph Bowes 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 9 holds 411 sentences of Pals, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Pals by Joseph Bowes 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 9 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 Pals, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
