Chapter 1 of Police!!! is here in full — 443 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Police!!! is here in full — 443 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
POLICE!!! All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May. Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise! Which is going some, you say? In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
Chapter 1 of Police!!! is here in full — 443 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/88 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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the season when the leaves fall from the trees
From this reading “All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.”
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading “All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.”
lacking in liveliness or animation
From this reading “In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.”
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading “In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.”
bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
From this reading “Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!”
marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
From this reading “In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.”
the force of policemen and officers
From this reading “POLICE!!!”
two times
From this reading “Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!”
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.
(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 the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
the season when the leaves fall from the trees
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
for the reason that
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
greatly pleasing or entertaining
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
lacking in liveliness or animation
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
the act that results in something coming to be
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
the act of departing
From this reading Which is going some, you say?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
and nothing more
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
engage in
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
have ownership or possession of
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
the force of policemen and officers
From this reading POLICE!!!
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
express in words
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Which is going some, you say?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
two times
From this reading Every day is twice as gay Just because of you, Louise!
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading In my dull, pedantic way I am fashioning my lay Just because I want to please.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Which is going some, you say?
in the company of; together with
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading All the pretty things you say, All the pretty things you do In your own delightful way Make me fall in love with you, Turning Autumn into May.
Chapter 1 of Police!!! by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers holds 443 sentences, grouped into 89 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 1 holds 443 sentences of Police!!!, unabridged, divided into 89 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Police!!! by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 443 sentences, grouped into 89 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 89 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Police!!!, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
