Chapter 2 of The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
BOBBY. Answer what? Oh, don’t take me that way again. I’ll answer. Yes, Mamma, I do know.
Chapter 2 of The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day is here in full — 427 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/85 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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anew
From this reading “Oh, don’t take me that way again.”
react verbally
From this reading “Answer what?”
an informal term for a British policeman
From this reading “BOBBY.”
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading “Yes, Mamma, I do know.”
informal terms for a mother
From this reading “Yes, Mamma, I do know.”
carry out
From this reading “Oh, don’t take me that way again.”
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading “Oh, don’t take me that way again.”
an affirmative
From this reading “Yes, Mamma, I do know.”
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anew
From this reading Oh, don’t take me that way again.
react verbally
From this reading Answer what?
an informal term for a British policeman
From this reading BOBBY.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Yes, Mamma, I do know.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Oh, don’t take me that way again.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Yes, Mamma, I do know.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I’ll answer.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading Yes, Mamma, I do know.
informal terms for a mother
From this reading Yes, Mamma, I do know.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Oh, don’t take me that way again.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh, don’t take me that way again.
carry out
From this reading Oh, don’t take me that way again.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Oh, don’t take me that way again.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading Oh, don’t take me that way again.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Answer what?
an affirmative
From this reading Yes, Mamma, I do know.
Chapter 2 of The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day by Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Frances) Guptill holds 427 sentences, grouped into 86 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 2 holds 427 sentences of The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day by Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Frances) Guptill exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 427 sentences, grouped into 86 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 86 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 86 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 2 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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