Chapter 5 of The play that won is here in full — 442 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The play that won is here in full — 442 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Where’s the knob?” “I don’t know, sir. It’s been gone a long while.” “Hm.” The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
Chapter 5 of The play that won is here in full — 442 sentences across 89 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/88 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading “The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.”
made or become different in nature or form
From this reading “The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.”
destroyed or killed
From this reading “It’s been gone a long while.””
a person whose occupation is teaching
From this reading “The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.”
a circular rounded projection or protuberance
From this reading ““Where’s the knob?””
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading “The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.”
challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
From this reading “The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.”
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading “The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.”
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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Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading It’s been gone a long while.”
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading It’s been gone a long while.”
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
made or become different in nature or form
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “I don’t know, sir.
destroyed or killed
From this reading It’s been gone a long while.”
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters
From this reading “Hm.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I don’t know, sir.
a person whose occupation is teaching
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It’s been gone a long while.”
a circular rounded projection or protuberance
From this reading “Where’s the knob?”
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading “I don’t know, sir.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading It’s been gone a long while.”
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
term of address for a man
From this reading “I don’t know, sir.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “Where’s the knob?”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The instructor seemed about to ask a second question, but changed his mind.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Where’s the knob?”
during the time that
From this reading It’s been gone a long while.”
Chapter 5 of The play that won by Ralph Henry Barbour holds 442 sentences, grouped into 89 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 5 holds 442 sentences of The play that won, unabridged, divided into 89 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of The play that won by Ralph Henry Barbour exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 442 sentences, grouped into 89 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 89 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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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 play that won, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
