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Chapter 3 of The 'Look About You' Nature Study Books, Book 3 [of 7] is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of The 'Look About You' Nature Study Books, Book 3 [of 7] is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
1. Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves. 2. An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways. Can you name them?
Chapter 3 of The 'Look About You' Nature Study Books, Book 3 [of 7] is here in full — 414 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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turn up, loosen, or remove earth
From this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
From this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads
From this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage
From this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
the display of a motion picture
From this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
preliminary drawing for later elaboration
From this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
From this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
under the level of the ground
From this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
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In this reading “An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.”
In this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
find by digging in the ground
In this reading “Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.”
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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 Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading Can you name them?
unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
plural of “leaf” — the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
engage in
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading Can you name them?
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
having or caused by an irregular surface
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
the display of a motion picture
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
preliminary drawing for later elaboration
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Can you name them?
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
under the level of the ground
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading Dig up a primrose plant, and make a rough sketch showing underground stem, roots, and leaves.
the act of using
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
From this reading An underground stem may be of use to a plant in three different ways.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Can you name them?
Chapter 3 of The 'Look About You' Nature Study Books, Book 3 [of 7] by Thomas W. Hoare holds 414 sentences, grouped into 83 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 414 sentences of The 'Look About You' Nature Study Books, Book 3 [of 7], unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The 'Look About You' Nature Study Books, Book 3 [of 7] by Thomas W. Hoare exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 414 sentences, grouped into 83 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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