Chapter 3 of The Vegetable is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 3 of The Vegetable is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
JERRY. Sure, that’s the idea. And put something like that in the ending, too. JONES. “Yours insincerely,” or something like that....
Chapter 3 of The Vegetable is here in full — 422 sentences across 85 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.
the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
From this reading “And put something like that in the ending, too.”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “Sure, that’s the idea.”
offensive term for a person of German descent
From this reading “JERRY.”
United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
From this reading “JONES.”
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading “And put something like that in the ending, too.”
a thing, without saying which
From this reading “And put something like that in the ending, too.”
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading “Sure, that’s the idea.”
the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to
From this reading ““Yours insincerely,” or something like that....”
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.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And put something like that in the ending, too.
the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
From this reading And put something like that in the ending, too.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading Sure, that’s the idea.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading And put something like that in the ending, too.
without sincerity
From this reading “Yours insincerely,” or something like that....
offensive term for a person of German descent
From this reading JERRY.
United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
From this reading JONES.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading And put something like that in the ending, too.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading “Yours insincerely,” or something like that....
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading And put something like that in the ending, too.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading And put something like that in the ending, too.
having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
From this reading Sure, that’s the idea.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading And put something like that in the ending, too.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Sure, that’s the idea.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Sure, that’s the idea.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading And put something like that in the ending, too.
the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to
From this reading “Yours insincerely,” or something like that....
Chapter 3 of The Vegetable by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald 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 3 holds 422 sentences of The Vegetable, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The Vegetable by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald 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 3 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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About 170 minutes of reading across 411 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Vegetable section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 5 chapters of The Vegetable to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Vegetable, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
