Chapter 5 of The Syndic is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Syndic is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"What's special about thirty miles inland?" "The natives, you fool!" The natives again. "I'm not worried about natives. Not with a pair of fifties."
Chapter 5 of The Syndic is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/84 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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the decade from 1950 to 1959
From this reading “Not with a pair of fifties."”
a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading “"The natives, you fool!"”
situated away from an area's coast or border
From this reading “"What's special about thirty miles inland?"”
plural of “native” — an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
From this reading “"The natives, you fool!"”
a set of two similar things considered as a unit
From this reading “Not with a pair of fifties."”
unique or specific to a person or thing or category
From this reading “"What's special about thirty miles inland?"”
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
From this reading “"What's special about thirty miles inland?"”
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
From this reading “"I'm not worried about natives.”
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 “"What's special about thirty miles inland?"”
In this reading “"What's special about thirty miles inland?"”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Not with a pair of fifties."
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading "What's special about thirty miles inland?"
anew
From this reading The natives again.
the decade from 1950 to 1959
From this reading Not with a pair of fifties."
a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading "The natives, you fool!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "I'm not worried about natives.
situated away from an area's coast or border
From this reading "What's special about thirty miles inland?"
plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
From this reading "What's special about thirty miles inland?"
plural of “native” — an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
From this reading "The natives, you fool!"
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading "I'm not worried about natives.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Not with a pair of fifties."
a set of two similar things considered as a unit
From this reading Not with a pair of fifties."
unique or specific to a person or thing or category
From this reading "What's special about thirty miles inland?"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "The natives, you fool!"
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
From this reading "What's special about thirty miles inland?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "What's special about thirty miles inland?"
in the company of; together with
From this reading Not with a pair of fifties."
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
From this reading "I'm not worried about natives.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "The natives, you fool!"
Chapter 5 of The Syndic by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth holds 422 sentences, grouped into 85 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 5 holds 422 sentences of The Syndic, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of The Syndic by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 422 sentences, grouped into 85 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 85 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 85 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 5 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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