Chapter 25 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River is here in full — 219 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 25 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River is here in full — 219 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out. "Hello, son! Howdy, boys! Say--what happened here? Bud--how did you get burned?
Chapter 25 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River is here in full — 219 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang
From this reading “YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.”
a partially opened flower
From this reading “Bud--how did you get burned?”
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
From this reading “Bud--how did you get burned?”
plural of “find” — a productive insight
From this reading “YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.”
an expression of greeting
From this reading “"Hello, son!”
an expression of greeting
From this reading “Howdy, boys!”
tell false information to for fun
From this reading “YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.”
any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor
From this reading “YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.”
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.
be highly noticeable
In this reading “YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading Howdy, boys!
an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
a partially opened flower
From this reading Bud--how did you get burned?
treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
From this reading Bud--how did you get burned?
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading Bud--how did you get burned?
plural of “find” — a productive insight
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading Bud--how did you get burned?
past form of “happen” — come to pass
From this reading Say--what happened here?
an expression of greeting
From this reading "Hello, son!
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Say--what happened here?
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Bud--how did you get burned?
an expression of greeting
From this reading Howdy, boys!
past form of “jump” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
tell false information to for fun
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
a form of address for a man
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
express in words
From this reading Say--what happened here?
a male human offspring
From this reading "Hello, son!
come to a halt, stop moving
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
happening without warning or in a short space of time
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Say--what happened here?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading YELLIN' KID FINDS HIS BRONC The wagon came to a sudden stop, and Mr. Merkel jumped out.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Bud--how did you get burned?
Chapter 25 of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River by Willard F. Baker holds 219 sentences, grouped into 44 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 25 holds 219 sentences of The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River, unabridged, divided into 44 reading sections.
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