Chapter 21 of The shooting party is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 21 of The shooting party is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Can you explain it to us?” “Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it. Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life . . of going mad .
Chapter 21 of The shooting party is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
From this reading “Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .”
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (“whole” is often used informally for “wholly”)
From this reading “Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .”
make plain and comprehensible
From this reading ““Can you explain it to us?””
intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
From this reading “Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .”
the activity of keeping something secret
From this reading ““Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it.”
roused to anger
From this reading “. of going mad .”
burdened psychologically or mentally
From this reading “Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .”
the day immediately before today
From this reading “Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading “Can you explain it to us?”
events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
From this reading “Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it.
definitely or positively (“sure” is sometimes used informally for “surely”)
From this reading “Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it.
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (“whole” is often used informally for “wholly”)
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
make plain and comprehensible
From this reading “Can you explain it to us?”
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it.
the act of departing
From this reading . of going mad .
intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
the activity of keeping something secret
From this reading “Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “Can you explain it to us?”
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
roused to anger
From this reading . of going mad .
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
not any; not one
From this reading “Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
burdened psychologically or mentally
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading “Certainly, I see no cause for hiding it.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
the act of someone who picks up or takes something
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “Can you explain it to us?”
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Can you explain it to us?”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
the day immediately before today
From this reading Yesterday I was so entirely broken and oppressed by my grief, that I thought of taking my life .
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Can you explain it to us?”
Chapter 21 of The shooting party by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov holds 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 21 holds 410 sentences of The shooting party, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 21 of The shooting party by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 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 21 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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