Chapter 11 of The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service is here in full — 144 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service is here in full — 144 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain. "Yes, sir." "Good work! Did you have any trouble?" "Nothing very much, sir."
Chapter 11 of The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service is here in full — 144 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading “BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.”
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading “BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.”
past form of “question” — challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
From this reading “BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.”
a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
From this reading “BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.”
the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
From this reading “BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.”
a source of difficulty
From this reading “Did you have any trouble?"”
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading “"Good work!”
an affirmative
From this reading “"Yes, sir."”
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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 “Did you have any trouble?"”
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(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 BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading Did you have any trouble?"
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading "Good work!
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Did you have any trouble?"
to a great degree or extent
From this reading "Nothing very much, sir."
not one thing; not anything
From this reading "Nothing very much, sir."
past form of “question” — challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
term of address for a man
From this reading "Yes, sir."
the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
a source of difficulty
From this reading Did you have any trouble?"
precisely as stated
From this reading "Nothing very much, sir."
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading "Good work!
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes, sir."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading BETWEEN SKY AND SEA "You got them all, did you?" questioned the captain.
Chapter 11 of The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service by Frank Gee Patchin holds 144 sentences, grouped into 29 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 11 holds 144 sentences of The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.
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