Chapter 4 of That Little Beggar is here in full — 225 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of That Little Beggar is here in full — 225 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
TEACHING JACKY TO SWIM. "Tell you a story? What shall it be about? I thought you were tired of stories." Granny spoke a trifle drowsily.
Chapter 4 of That Little Beggar is here in full — 225 sentences across 45 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.
the mother of your father or mother
From this reading “Granny spoke a trifle drowsily.”
support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
From this reading “Granny spoke a trifle drowsily.”
plural of “story” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading “I thought you were tired of stories."”
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading “"Tell you a story?”
travel through water
From this reading “TEACHING JACKY TO SWIM.”
the profession of a teacher
From this reading “TEACHING JACKY TO SWIM.”
depleted of strength or energy
From this reading “I thought you were tired of stories."”
a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
From this reading “Granny spoke a trifle drowsily.”
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.
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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 "Tell you a story?
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading What shall it be about?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading What shall it be about?
in a drowsy manner
From this reading Granny spoke a trifle drowsily.
the mother of your father or mother
From this reading Granny spoke a trifle drowsily.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I thought you were tired of stories."
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading What shall it be about?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading TEACHING JACKY TO SWIM.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I thought you were tired of stories."
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading What shall it be about?
support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
From this reading Granny spoke a trifle drowsily.
plural of “story” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading I thought you were tired of stories."
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading "Tell you a story?
travel through water
From this reading TEACHING JACKY TO SWIM.
the profession of a teacher
From this reading TEACHING JACKY TO SWIM.
express in words
From this reading "Tell you a story?
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading I thought you were tired of stories."
depleted of strength or energy
From this reading I thought you were tired of stories."
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading TEACHING JACKY TO SWIM.
a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
From this reading Granny spoke a trifle drowsily.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading I thought you were tired of stories."
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What shall it be about?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Tell you a story?
Chapter 4 of That Little Beggar by Edith King Hall holds 225 sentences, grouped into 45 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 4 holds 225 sentences of That Little Beggar, unabridged, divided into 45 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of That Little Beggar by Edith King Hall exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 225 sentences, grouped into 45 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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