Chapter 29 of The Camp Fire Girls is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 29 of The Camp Fire Girls is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?” “We’ve been worried to death about you!” “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?” “My! They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
Chapter 29 of The Camp Fire Girls is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading “They look as though they’d slept in a barn!””
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading “THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?””
the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading ““We’ve been worried to death about you!””
plural of “girl” — a young female
From this reading “THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?””
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading ““Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?””
inflected form of “sleep” — be asleep
From this reading “They look as though they’d slept in a barn!””
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading “THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?””
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
From this reading ““We’ve been worried to death about you!””
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 “THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?””
In this reading ““Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?””
In this reading “They look as though they’d slept in a barn!””
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 They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “We’ve been worried to death about you!”
(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 “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
the past participle of “be”
From this reading “We’ve been worried to death about you!”
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
the event of dying or departure from life
From this reading “We’ve been worried to death about you!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
plural of “girl” — a young female
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
the act of departing
From this reading “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “My!
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
inflected form of “sleep” — be asleep
From this reading They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
express in words
From this reading “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
in spite of the fact that
From this reading They look as though they’d slept in a barn!”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “We’ve been worried to death about you!”
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “We’ve been worried to death about you!”
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
in or at the place that
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading “Why didn’t you tell us you were going to be out all night?”
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
everything that exists anywhere
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
From this reading “We’ve been worried to death about you!”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading THE GIRLS WILL GO “Where in the world were you boys?”
Chapter 29 of The Camp Fire Girls by Howard Roger Garis holds 119 sentences, grouped into 24 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 29 holds 119 sentences of The Camp Fire Girls, unabridged, divided into 24 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 29 of The Camp Fire Girls by Howard Roger Garis exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 119 sentences, grouped into 24 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 24 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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