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_Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one. But the blamed thing almost put them out of business. Why? It had no tact. It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “_Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.”
demanded something firmly
From this reading “It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.”
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading “_Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.”
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading “_Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.”
a formal word for “on”
From this reading “It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
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From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
demanded something firmly
From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It had no tact.
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From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
not any; not one
From this reading It had no tact.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
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From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading It had no tact.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading But the blamed thing almost put them out of business.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading _Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one.
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
a formal word for “on”
From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
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From this reading Why?
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From this reading It insisted upon telling the truth!_ The Personnelovac winked, chittered, chortled, chuckled, and burped a card into the slot.
