Chapter 15 of Roy Blakeley's Funny-Bone Hike is here in full — 85 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of Roy Blakeley's Funny-Bone Hike is here in full — 85 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved! We are shaved! A Fraud car! A Fraud car on the horizon!” I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
Chapter 15 of Roy Blakeley's Funny-Bone Hike is here in full — 85 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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affected with madness or insanity
From this reading “I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.”
the operator of a motor vehicle
From this reading “I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.”
United States film maker (1896-1973)
From this reading “I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.”
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
From this reading “A Fraud car!”
the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
From this reading “A Fraud car on the horizon!””
bring to an end; settle conclusively
From this reading “WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!”
having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin
From this reading “WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!”
encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators
From this reading “WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!”
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 “A Fraud car on the horizon!””
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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 WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
(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 WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
From this reading A Fraud car!
affected with madness or insanity
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
the operator of a motor vehicle
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
United States film maker (1896-1973)
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
From this reading WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
From this reading A Fraud car!
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
From this reading A Fraud car on the horizon!”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading A Fraud car on the horizon!”
bring to an end; settle conclusively
From this reading WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin
From this reading WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators
From this reading WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
past form of “start” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A Fraud car on the horizon!”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading WE FORM A RESOLVE We all started shouting, “We are shaved!
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading I guess the driver of that Ford car thought we were crazy.
Chapter 15 of Roy Blakeley's Funny-Bone Hike by Percy Keese Fitzhugh holds 85 sentences, grouped into 17 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 15 holds 85 sentences of Roy Blakeley's Funny-Bone Hike, unabridged, divided into 17 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 15 of Roy Blakeley's Funny-Bone Hike by Percy Keese Fitzhugh exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 85 sentences, grouped into 17 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.
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