Chapter 14 of The Perfect World is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 14 of The Perfect World is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath! The Lord rested on the Sabbath! Sabbath! Seventh! Seventh!
Chapter 14 of The Perfect World is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading “THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!”
the act of escaping physically
From this reading “THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!”
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading “The Lord rested on the Sabbath!”
not tired; refreshed as by sleeping or relaxing
From this reading “The Lord rested on the Sabbath!”
a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims
From this reading “THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!”
coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position
From this reading “THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!”
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.
In this reading “THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!
the act of escaping physically
From this reading THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading The Lord rested on the Sabbath!
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The Lord rested on the Sabbath!
not tired; refreshed as by sleeping or relaxing
From this reading The Lord rested on the Sabbath!
a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims
From this reading THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!
coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position
From this reading THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading THE ESCAPE And the seventh day was the Sabbath!
Chapter 14 of The Perfect World by Ella M. Scrymsour holds 154 sentences, grouped into 31 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 14 holds 154 sentences of The Perfect World, unabridged, divided into 31 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 14 of The Perfect World by Ella M. Scrymsour exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 154 sentences, grouped into 31 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 31 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 14 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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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Perfect World, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
