Chapter 10 of Susan is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 10 of Susan is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
I can guess the place. It will be on the beach between here and the beck. They are meeting now. He is holding her in his arms. She will be like potter’s clay in his hands.
Chapter 10 of Susan is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 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.
weapons considered collectively
From this reading “He is holding her in his arms.”
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
From this reading “It will be on the beach between here and the beck.”
a beckoning gesture
From this reading “It will be on the beach between here and the beck.”
a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
From this reading “She will be like potter’s clay in his hands.”
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading “I can guess the place.”
the act of retaining something
From this reading “He is holding her in his arms.”
a formally arranged gathering
From this reading “They are meeting now.”
possessive form of “potter” — a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
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 “It will be on the beach between here and the beck.”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading They are meeting now.
weapons considered collectively
From this reading He is holding her in his arms.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
a beckoning gesture
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading I can guess the place.
a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
From this reading She will be like potter’s clay in his hands.
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading I can guess the place.
(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
From this reading She will be like potter’s clay in his hands.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He is holding her in his arms.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading He is holding her in his arms.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading He is holding her in his arms.
the act of retaining something
From this reading He is holding her in his arms.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I can guess the place.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading He is holding her in his arms.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading He is holding her in his arms.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading She will be like potter’s clay in his hands.
a formally arranged gathering
From this reading They are meeting now.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading They are meeting now.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading I can guess the place.
possessive form of “potter” — a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
From this reading She will be like potter’s clay in his hands.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She will be like potter’s clay in his hands.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I can guess the place.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They are meeting now.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading It will be on the beach between here and the beck.
Chapter 10 of Susan by Ernest Oldmeadow holds 413 sentences, grouped into 83 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 413 sentences of Susan, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of Susan by Ernest Oldmeadow exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 413 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 10 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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About 381 minutes of reading across 917 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Susan section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Susan, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
