Chapter 11 of The William Henry Letters is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 11 of The William Henry Letters is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl. Tra la la, tra la la! Sweet, sweet Tommy! He’s a funny talking fellow. We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
Chapter 11 of The William Henry Letters is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
From this reading “Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.”
a boy or man
From this reading “He’s a funny talking fellow.”
arousing or provoking laughter
From this reading “He’s a funny talking fellow.”
a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
From this reading “We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.”
the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading “Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.”
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading “Sweet, sweet Tommy!”
an exchange of ideas via conversation
From this reading “He’s a funny talking fellow.”
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading “We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.”
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 “We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.”
In this reading “Tra la la, tra la la!”
In this reading “We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.”
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 He’s a funny talking fellow.
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
a boy or man
From this reading He’s a funny talking fellow.
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
arousing or provoking laughter
From this reading He’s a funny talking fellow.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading He’s a funny talking fellow.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
From this reading Tra la la, tra la la!
immediately past
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading Sweet, sweet Tommy!
an exchange of ideas via conversation
From this reading He’s a funny talking fellow.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
inflected form of “take” — carry out
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Tra la la, tra la la!
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We took him into town last night, to see the illumination.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Were Tommy blind as any mole, He’d always find the sugar-bowl.
Chapter 11 of The William Henry Letters by Abby Morton Diaz holds 411 sentences, grouped into 83 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 11 holds 411 sentences of The William Henry Letters, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 11 of The William Henry Letters by Abby Morton Diaz exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 411 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 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 11 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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