Chapter 32 of The history of a mouthful of bread is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 32 of The history of a mouthful of bread is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MAMMALIA--_continued_. We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe. We shall therefore pass more quickly over them. ORDER 9. _Marsupialia (pouched)_.
Chapter 32 of The history of a mouthful of bread is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “animal” — a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
From this reading “We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.”
the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use “Europe” to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
From this reading “We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.”
well known or easily recognized
From this reading “We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.”
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading “We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.”
not one, and not any
From this reading “We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.”
go across or through
From this reading “We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.”
with speed
From this reading “We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.”
for that reason; as a result
From this reading “We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.”
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From this reading ORDER 9.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
plural of “animal” — a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
without stop or interruption
From this reading MAMMALIA--_continued_.
the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use “Europe” to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
well known or easily recognized
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female
From this reading MAMMALIA--_continued_.
coextensive with the subclass Metatheria
From this reading _Marsupialia (pouched)_.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.
not one, and not any
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
From this reading ORDER 9.
above and across; more than
From this reading We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.
go across or through
From this reading We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.
having a pouch
From this reading _Marsupialia (pouched)_.
with speed
From this reading We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.
for that reason; as a result
From this reading We shall therefore pass more quickly over them.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading We come now to animals less familiar to you, and none of which inhabit Europe.
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