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Chapter III
“I never said you had! How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?” “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me? Answer me that!” “How can you,” she wept, “before a stranger?”
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any person at all
From this reading ““Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?”
earlier than; in front of
From this reading ““How can you,” she wept, “before a stranger?””
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading ““Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading ““Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading ““I never said you had!”
to provide what someone needs in order to live
From this reading ““Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading ““Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?”
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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 “How can you,” she wept, “before a stranger?”
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From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
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From this reading Answer me that!”
any person at all
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
earlier than; in front of
From this reading “How can you,” she wept, “before a stranger?”
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
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From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading “I never said you had!
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I never said you had!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “I never said you had!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading “I never said you had!
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “How can you,” she wept, “before a stranger?”
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From this reading “How can you,” she wept, “before a stranger?”
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
to provide what someone needs in order to live
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading “How can you,” she wept, “before a stranger?”
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
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From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
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From this reading “Have you never told anybody in this hotel--or anywhere else in the last ten years--that you were lecturing to support me?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “I never said you had!
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading How can you accuse your mother of such wickedness, Lancelot?”
