Chapter 2 of The Lost Ego is here in full — 501 sentences across 101 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Lost Ego is here in full — 501 sentences across 101 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here. So did I, or rather, Dave Thordsen. There were just the three of us. No one else worked in the lab. Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
Chapter 2 of The Lost Ego is here in full — 501 sentences across 101 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
From this reading “Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.”
a man who has never been married
From this reading “Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.”
a coil of rope or wool or yarn
From this reading “It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.”
a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
From this reading “No one else worked in the lab.”
past form of “live” — be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading “Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.”
French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)
From this reading “Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.”
easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
From this reading “It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.”
past form of “work” — exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading “No one else worked in the lab.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
live in the house where one works
In this reading “Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.”
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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 Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
a man who has never been married
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading So did I, or rather, Dave Thordsen.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No one else worked in the lab.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
a coil of rope or wool or yarn
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading So did I, or rather, Dave Thordsen.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading No one else worked in the lab.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
and nothing more
From this reading There were just the three of us.
a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
From this reading No one else worked in the lab.
immediately past
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
past form of “live” — be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
not any; not one
From this reading No one else worked in the lab.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading There were just the three of us.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading No one else worked in the lab.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading So did I, or rather, Dave Thordsen.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
on the contrary
From this reading So did I, or rather, Dave Thordsen.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So did I, or rather, Dave Thordsen.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading There were just the three of us.
in or at that place or location
From this reading There were just the three of us.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading So did I, or rather, Dave Thordsen.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading There were just the three of us.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading There were just the three of us.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading There were just the three of us.
which person or people
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading It was now obvious to me that Hank and Orville did work here.
past form of “work” — exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
From this reading No one else worked in the lab.
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet I was first, last and always Fred Martin, who lived in a bachelor apartment.
Chapter 2 of The Lost Ego by Rog Phillips holds 501 sentences, grouped into 101 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 2 holds 501 sentences of The Lost Ego, unabridged, divided into 101 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Lost Ego by Rog Phillips exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 501 sentences, grouped into 101 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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