Chapter 20 of The Moghul is here in full — 456 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 20 of The Moghul is here in full — 456 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Words, Captain. Easy words. Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated. This one time. Waiting for a bigger prize.
Chapter 20 of The Moghul is here in full — 456 sentences across 92 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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past form of “allow” — make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
From this reading “Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.”
large or big relative to something else
From this reading “Waiting for a bigger prize.”
beaten or overcome; not victorious
From this reading “Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.”
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
From this reading “Easy words.”
the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil
From this reading “Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.”
something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
From this reading “Waiting for a bigger prize.”
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading “Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.”
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
From this reading “Waiting for a bigger prize.”
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.
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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 Waiting for a bigger prize.
past form of “allow” — make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
From this reading Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.
large or big relative to something else
From this reading Waiting for a bigger prize.
an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
From this reading "Words, Captain.
beaten or overcome; not victorious
From this reading Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
From this reading Easy words.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Waiting for a bigger prize.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading This one time.
by chance
From this reading Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.
the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil
From this reading Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.
something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
From this reading Waiting for a bigger prize.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This one time.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading This one time.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Perhaps the Portuguese allowed themselves to be defeated.
the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
From this reading Waiting for a bigger prize.
the words that are spoken
From this reading "Words, Captain.
Chapter 20 of The Moghul by Thomas Hoover holds 456 sentences, grouped into 92 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 20 holds 456 sentences of The Moghul, unabridged, divided into 92 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 20 of The Moghul by Thomas Hoover exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 456 sentences, grouped into 92 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.
Work through the 92 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 92 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 20 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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