Chapter 10 of Spirits Do Return is here in full — 114 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Spirits Do Return is here in full — 114 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE. “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate. I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him. “Come along, Pat. Find me a club.
Chapter 10 of Spirits Do Return is here in full — 114 sentences across 23 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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third-person singular of “allow” — make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
From this reading “PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.”
a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
From this reading “Find me a club.”
a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
From this reading “I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.”
plural of “guard” — a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading “I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.”
investigate scientifically
From this reading ““I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.”
pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin
From this reading “PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.”
a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
From this reading “PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.”
be agreeable or acceptable to
From this reading “I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.”
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.
come into being or existence, or appear on the scene
In this reading ““Come along, Pat.”
In this reading “I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.”
In this reading ““I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.”
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
third-person singular of “allow” — make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
From this reading PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading “Come along, Pat.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
From this reading Find me a club.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “Come along, Pat.
a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
the act of escaping physically
From this reading PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading Find me a club.
to travel behind, go after, come after
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
the act of departing
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
plural of “guard” — a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
investigate scientifically
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
go away from a place
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Find me a club.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin
From this reading PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
From this reading PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
be agreeable or acceptable to
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading PAT ALLOWS THE PRISONER TO ESCAPE.
a source of difficulty
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
up to a particular time
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
in the company of; together with
From this reading I shall don a suit of one of the guards and follow this man around from morning until night and see if I will have any trouble with him.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “I am going to leave you in charge of this place and I am going to investigate.
Chapter 10 of Spirits Do Return by Ida Belle White holds 114 sentences, grouped into 23 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 10 holds 114 sentences of Spirits Do Return, unabridged, divided into 23 reading sections.
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