Chapter 6 of The Road Builders is here in full — 566 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of The Road Builders is here in full — 566 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van. “You haven’t told me.” “I shot him.” “Not yours too? Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?
Chapter 6 of The Road Builders is here in full — 566 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a range horse of the western United States
From this reading “THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.”
the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
From this reading “Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?”
the act of firing a projectile
From this reading ““I shot him.””
the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico
From this reading “Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?”
add up in number or quantity
From this reading “THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.”
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
From this reading “THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.”
something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
From this reading “THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.”
the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to
From this reading ““Not yours too?”
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.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “You haven’t told me.”
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “I shot him.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I shot him.”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “You haven’t told me.”
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “Not yours too?
a range horse of the western United States
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
From this reading Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?
the act of firing a projectile
From this reading “I shot him.”
the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico
From this reading Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Didn’t I see you riding Texas this morning?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading “You haven’t told me.”
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading “Not yours too?
add up in number or quantity
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “You haven’t told me.”
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK “How’s my pony?” said Young Van.
the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to
From this reading “Not yours too?
Chapter 6 of The Road Builders by Samuel Merwin holds 566 sentences, grouped into 114 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 6 holds 566 sentences of The Road Builders, unabridged, divided into 114 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of The Road Builders by Samuel Merwin exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 566 sentences, grouped into 114 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 114 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 114 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 6 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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