Chapter 17 of Six Plays is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of Six Plays is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SUSAN. [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up. GRANDMOTHER. He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished. ALICE.
Chapter 17 of Six Plays is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a very troublesome child
From this reading “He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.”
an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading “He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.”
(of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state
From this reading “He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.”
the mother of your father or mother
From this reading “GRANDMOTHER.”
staying power
From this reading “He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.”
a quantity of no importance
From this reading “He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.”
up to a particular time
From this reading “He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.”
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading “He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.”
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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 He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
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From this reading ALICE.
(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 He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
a very troublesome child
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up.
an artistic form of nonverbal communication
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
in a distracted manner
From this reading [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up.
(of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up.
the mother of your father or mother
From this reading GRANDMOTHER.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
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From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
staying power
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
a quantity of no importance
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
express in words
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading SUSAN.
up to a particular time
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading [_Distractedly_.] O I can never give him up.
at the time that
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He’ll never be yourn to give—Dance till your legs is off and he’ll have naught to say to a gipsy brat when ’tis all finished.
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