Chapter 8 of The children and the pictures is here in full — 62 sentences across 13 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of The children and the pictures is here in full — 62 sentences across 13 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree. The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me. O, what sweet company!_ W. BLAKE. One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom. It was to a neighbouring race meeting.
Chapter 8 of The children and the pictures is here in full — 62 sentences across 13 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
From this reading “O, what sweet company!_ W. BLAKE.”
a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
From this reading “One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.”
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
From this reading “The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.”
someone who hunts game
From this reading “The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.”
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading “_I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.”
-ing form of “neighbour” — live or be located as a neighbor
From this reading “It was to a neighbouring race meeting.”
plural of “skylark” — brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height
From this reading “The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.”
plural of “wind” — air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
From this reading “The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.”
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.
continue a certain state, condition, or activity
In this reading “One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
plural of “bird” — warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
From this reading O, what sweet company!_ W. BLAKE.
plural of “child” — a young person of either sex
From this reading One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading O, what sweet company!_ W. BLAKE.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.
separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
From this reading One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.
the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints
From this reading One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
someone who hunts game
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was to a neighbouring race meeting.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
a formally arranged gathering
From this reading It was to a neighbouring race meeting.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
-ing form of “neighbour” — live or be located as a neighbor
From this reading It was to a neighbouring race meeting.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O, what sweet company!_ W. BLAKE.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.
any competition
From this reading It was to a neighbouring race meeting.
move upward
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
deliver by singing
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
plural of “skylark” — brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading O, what sweet company!_ W. BLAKE.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
From this reading O, what sweet company!_ W. BLAKE.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was to a neighbouring race meeting.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading One day the children went on a long expedition with Freedom.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading O, what sweet company!_ W. BLAKE.
at the time that
From this reading _I love to rise on a Summer morn When birds sing on every tree.
plural of “wind” — air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
in the company of; together with
From this reading The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylarks sing with me.
Chapter 8 of The children and the pictures by Pamela Grey holds 62 sentences, grouped into 13 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 8 holds 62 sentences of The children and the pictures, unabridged, divided into 13 reading sections.
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