Chapter 2 of The Garden Party, and Other Stories is here in full — 241 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of The Garden Party, and Other Stories is here in full — 241 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Gone?” “Gone!” Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house. Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret. Beryl went over to the table.
Chapter 2 of The Garden Party, and Other Stories is here in full — 241 sentences across 49 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems
From this reading “Beryl went over to the table.”
the quality of being unlike or dissimilar
From this reading “Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.”
feeling or showing love and affection
From this reading “Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.”
the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
From this reading “Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.”
have in common; held or experienced in common
From this reading “Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.”
past form of “sound” — appear in a certain way
From this reading “Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.”
plural of “voice” — the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading “Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.”
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
From this reading “Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.”
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 Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems
From this reading Beryl went over to the table.
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
made or become different in nature or form
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
the quality of being unlike or dissimilar
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
destroyed or killed
From this reading “Gone?”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
feeling or showing love and affection
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
above and across; more than
From this reading Beryl went over to the table.
the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
have in common; held or experienced in common
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
past form of “sound” — appear in a certain way
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading Beryl went over to the table.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
precisely as stated
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
plural of “voice” — the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Beryl went over to the table.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Their very voices were changed as they called to one another; they sounded warm and loving and as if they shared a secret.
Chapter 2 of The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield holds 241 sentences, grouped into 49 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 241 sentences of The Garden Party, and Other Stories, unabridged, divided into 49 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 241 sentences, grouped into 49 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.
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