Chapter 3 of Simeon Tetlow's Shadow is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Simeon Tetlow's Shadow is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Oh, they ’re coming, are they?” The hand on the rail relaxed. “Yes, sir.” The president stepped back to the platform. He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
Chapter 3 of Simeon Tetlow's Shadow is here in full — 408 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
From this reading “He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.”
motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling
From this reading “He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.”
restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition
From this reading “He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.”
a raised horizontal surface
From this reading “The president stepped back to the platform.”
an executive officer of a firm or corporation
From this reading “The president stepped back to the platform.”
a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
From this reading “The hand on the rail relaxed.”
without strain or anxiety
From this reading “The hand on the rail relaxed.”
inflected form of “step” — shift or move by taking a step
From this reading “The president stepped back to the platform.”
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 “He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.”
In this reading “The hand on the rail relaxed.”
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.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “Oh, they ’re coming, are they?”
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading The president stepped back to the platform.
a youthful male person
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading “Oh, they ’re coming, are they?”
a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading The hand on the rail relaxed.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh, they ’re coming, are they?”
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The hand on the rail relaxed.
a raised horizontal surface
From this reading The president stepped back to the platform.
an executive officer of a firm or corporation
From this reading The president stepped back to the platform.
a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
From this reading The hand on the rail relaxed.
a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum
From this reading “Oh, they ’re coming, are they?”
without strain or anxiety
From this reading The hand on the rail relaxed.
term of address for a man
From this reading “Yes, sir.”
inflected form of “step” — shift or move by taking a step
From this reading The president stepped back to the platform.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The hand on the rail relaxed.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Oh, they ’re coming, are they?”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The president stepped back to the platform.
moved around an axis or center
From this reading He made an impatient gesture to the engineer and turned to the boy.
an affirmative
From this reading “Yes, sir.”
Chapter 3 of Simeon Tetlow's Shadow by Jennette Lee holds 408 sentences, grouped into 82 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 3 holds 408 sentences of Simeon Tetlow's Shadow, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Simeon Tetlow's Shadow by Jennette Lee exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 408 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 3 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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