Chapter 3 of The Jazz Singer is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of The Jazz Singer is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SARA Jakie! The water! From the sideboard! [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so. Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
Chapter 3 of The Jazz Singer is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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third-person singular of “bring” — take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading “[JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.”
arouse or elicit a feeling
From this reading “[JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.”
a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
From this reading “[JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.”
plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
a small worthless amount
From this reading “[JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.”
possessive form of “papa” — an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
third-person singular of “pour” — cause to run
From this reading “[JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.”
with speed
From this reading “[JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.”
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In this reading “[JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.”
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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 [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
third-person singular of “bring” — take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
arouse or elicit a feeling
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading From the sideboard!
a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
a small worthless amount
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading SARA Jakie!
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
above and across; more than
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
possessive form of “papa” — an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
From this reading Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
third-person singular of “pour” — cause to run
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
with speed
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading SARA Jakie!
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity
From this reading From the sideboard!
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The water!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading The water!
a Caucasian
From this reading Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Look, Jakie, see how white your Papa’s face is.
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading [JACK _goes quickly to sideboard, pours a glass of water and brings it over._] Yosele, you shouldn’t excite yourself so.
Chapter 3 of The Jazz Singer by Samson Raphaelson holds 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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 3 holds 419 sentences of The Jazz Singer, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The Jazz Singer by Samson Raphaelson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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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