Chapter 2 of The Settler is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The Settler is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Is our place like this?" she asked. "Prettier." Carter indicated the distant forest line. "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie." "Then I can be happy," she sighed.
Chapter 2 of The Settler is here in full — 400 sentences across 80 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 low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
From this reading “"We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."”
Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939)
From this reading “Carter indicated the distant forest line.”
past form of “indicate” — be a signal for or a symptom of
From this reading “Carter indicated the distant forest line.”
a treeless grassy plain
From this reading “"We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."”
comparative of “pretty” — pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
From this reading “"Prettier."”
uttered with a trill
From this reading “"We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."”
past form of “sigh” — heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading “"Then I can be happy," she sighed.”
land that is covered with trees and shrubs
From this reading “"We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."”
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 “"We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading "Is our place like this?" she asked.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "Then I can be happy," she sighed.
physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading "Then I can be happy," she sighed.
Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939)
From this reading Carter indicated the distant forest line.
at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
a politically organized body of people under a single government
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
From this reading Carter indicated the distant forest line.
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
From this reading Carter indicated the distant forest line.
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading "Then I can be happy," she sighed.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Then I can be happy," she sighed.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
past form of “indicate” — be a signal for or a symptom of
From this reading Carter indicated the distant forest line.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Is our place like this?" she asked.
a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading "Is our place like this?" she asked.
a formation of people or things one beside another
From this reading Carter indicated the distant forest line.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading "Is our place like this?" she asked.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading "Is our place like this?" she asked.
a treeless grassy plain
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
comparative of “pretty” — pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
From this reading "Prettier."
uttered with a trill
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Is our place like this?" she asked.
past form of “sigh” — heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading "Then I can be happy," she sighed.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Carter indicated the distant forest line.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading "Then I can be happy," she sighed.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading "Is our place like this?" she asked.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
land that is covered with trees and shrubs
From this reading "We are close in to the bush and the country is broken up into woodland, lake, and rolling prairie."
Chapter 2 of The Settler by Herman Whitaker holds 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 400 sentences of The Settler, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The Settler by Herman Whitaker exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 400 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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