Chapter 17 of Romance is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of Romance is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“To say good-by,” I said, approaching him. It had fallen dark already. “Good-by? No. The carpenter must have a day at least.” Carpenter!
Chapter 17 of Romance is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 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.
prior to a specified or implied time
From this reading “It had fallen dark already.”
the event of one object coming closer to another
From this reading ““To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.”
a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
From this reading “No. The carpenter must have a day at least.””
absence of light or illumination
From this reading “It had fallen dark already.”
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading “No. The carpenter must have a day at least.””
having dropped by the force of gravity
From this reading “It had fallen dark already.”
the superlative of “little” that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by “the”; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
From this reading “No. The carpenter must have a day at least.””
express in words
From this reading ““To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
prior to a specified or implied time
From this reading It had fallen dark already.
the event of one object coming closer to another
From this reading “To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
From this reading No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
absence of light or illumination
From this reading It had fallen dark already.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
having dropped by the force of gravity
From this reading It had fallen dark already.
a farewell remark
From this reading “To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It had fallen dark already.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It had fallen dark already.
the superlative of “little” that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by “the”; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
From this reading No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
not any; not one
From this reading No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.
express in words
From this reading “To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading No. The carpenter must have a day at least.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “To say good-by,” I said, approaching him.
Chapter 17 of Romance by Joseph Conrad holds 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 17 holds 417 sentences of Romance, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 17 of Romance by Joseph Conrad exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 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 Romance, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
