Chapter 4 of The Sun Also Rises is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of The Sun Also Rises is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“What do you mean?” “Tell us right off. Don’t think. What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?” Cohn started to consider.
Chapter 4 of The Sun Also Rises is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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any thing at all
From this reading “What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?””
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
From this reading “Cohn started to consider.”
deem to be
From this reading “Cohn started to consider.”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading ““What do you mean?””
on the contrary
From this reading “What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?””
precisely, exactly
From this reading ““Tell us right off.”
past form of “start” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading “Cohn started to consider.”
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading “What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?””
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any thing at all
From this reading What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?”
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
From this reading Cohn started to consider.
deem to be
From this reading Cohn started to consider.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?”
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “What do you mean?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Don’t think.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “What do you mean?”
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading “Tell us right off.
on the contrary
From this reading What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?”
precisely, exactly
From this reading “Tell us right off.
past form of “start” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading Cohn started to consider.
express in words
From this reading “Tell us right off.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading Don’t think.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Cohn started to consider.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Tell us right off.
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?”
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What do you mean?”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading What would you rather do if you could do anything you wanted?”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “What do you mean?”
Chapter 4 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway holds 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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 4 holds 419 sentences of The Sun Also Rises, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 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 4 can be played aloud in United States English.
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