Chapter 6 of The Benefit of the Doubt is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of The Benefit of the Doubt is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
To face these people? JOHN. [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage. OLIVE. It’s nothing; I am so happy.
Chapter 6 of The Benefit of the Doubt is here in full — 421 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/84 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “[_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.”
a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
From this reading “[_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.”
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading “It’s nothing; I am so happy.”
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading “JOHN.”
the sound of laughing
From this reading “[_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.”
of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive
From this reading “OLIVE.”
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading “[_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.”
consistent with fact or reality; not false
From this reading “[_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.”
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 “[_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.”
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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 [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading It’s nothing; I am so happy.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
From this reading [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading To face these people?
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading It’s nothing; I am so happy.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It’s nothing; I am so happy.
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading JOHN.
the sound of laughing
From this reading [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
not one thing; not anything
From this reading It’s nothing; I am so happy.
of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive
From this reading OLIVE.
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading To face these people?
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
From this reading [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading It’s nothing; I am so happy.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading To face these people?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To face these people?
consistent with fact or reality; not false
From this reading [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
in the company of; together with
From this reading [_With a short laugh._] I call it true courage.
Chapter 6 of The Benefit of the Doubt by Arthur Wing Pinero holds 421 sentences, grouped into 85 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 6 holds 421 sentences of The Benefit of the Doubt, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of The Benefit of the Doubt by Arthur Wing Pinero exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 421 sentences, grouped into 85 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 85 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 85 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 6 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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