Chapter 20 of Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 20 of Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A Girl Brigade “Smoke! Smoke!” It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together. “Smoke! Smoke!
Chapter 20 of Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur is here in full — 128 sentences across 26 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
From this reading “It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.”
army unit smaller than a division
From this reading “A Girl Brigade “Smoke!”
utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading “It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.”
plural of “france” — a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
From this reading “It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.”
United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945)
From this reading “It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.”
the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
From this reading “It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.”
a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
From this reading “A Girl Brigade “Smoke!”
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading “It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.”
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.
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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 A Girl Brigade “Smoke!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
army unit smaller than a division
From this reading A Girl Brigade “Smoke!
utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
plural of “france” — a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
a young female
From this reading A Girl Brigade “Smoke!
United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945)
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
the mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
From this reading A Girl Brigade “Smoke!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was a cry from Frances Goddard and Naomi, the artist, together.
Chapter 20 of Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur by Isabel Hornibrook holds 128 sentences, grouped into 26 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 20 holds 128 sentences of Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur, unabridged, divided into 26 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 20 of Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur by Isabel Hornibrook exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 128 sentences, grouped into 26 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 26 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 26 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 20 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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About 268 minutes of reading across 644 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Pemrose Lorry, Radio Amateur, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
