Chapter 3 of Poppy Ott and the galloping snail is here in full — 239 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Poppy Ott and the galloping snail is here in full — 239 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk. Every big kid knows that. _Ghosts?_ Pooh! Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts? That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
Chapter 3 of Poppy Ott and the galloping snail is here in full — 239 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a long trough for feeding cattle
From this reading “THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.”
a tract of land used for burials
From this reading “That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.”
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading “Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?”
mature male goose
From this reading “THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.”
plural of “ghost” — a mental representation of some haunting experience
From this reading “Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?”
tell false information to for fun
From this reading “Every big kid knows that.”
plural of “kid” — a young person of either sex
From this reading “That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.”
having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
From this reading “THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.”
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In this reading “That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?
accept as true; take to be true
From this reading Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Every big kid knows that.
a long trough for feeding cattle
From this reading THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.
a tract of land used for burials
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
-ing form of “do” — engage in
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
From this reading Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Every big kid knows that.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
mature male goose
From this reading THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.
a mental representation of some haunting experience
From this reading THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.
plural of “ghost” — a mental representation of some haunting experience
From this reading _Ghosts?_ Pooh!
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
tell false information to for fun
From this reading Every big kid knows that.
plural of “kid” — a young person of either sex
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
plural of “know” — the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people
From this reading Every big kid knows that.
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
(superlative of “near” or “close”) within the shortest distance
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Ghosts?_ Pooh!
express in words
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
From this reading THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Every big kid knows that.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.
a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
From this reading THE SPOTTED GANDER The ghost theory is bunk.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
at the time that
From this reading That is what we say back and forth, the _big_ kids I mean, when the sun is doing its dinner-time stuff, high in the sky, and the nearest cemetery is six miles away.
which person or people
From this reading Who could be crazy enough to believe in ghosts?
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