Chapter 9 of The Wonderful Garden is here in full — 286 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of The Wonderful Garden is here in full — 286 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly. ‘Why?’ Caroline asked, very warm and sleepy. ‘We aren’t called yet, and it’s quite dark.’ ‘Called!’
Chapter 9 of The Wonderful Garden is here in full — 286 sentences across 58 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
From this reading “THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.”
of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England
From this reading “Caroline asked, very warm and sleepy.”
the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina
From this reading “THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.”
with resolute determination
From this reading “THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.”
in a gradual manner
From this reading “THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.”
-ing form of “pinch” — squeeze tightly between the fingers
From this reading “THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.”
ready to fall asleep
From this reading “Caroline asked, very warm and sleepy.”
be awake, be alert, be there
From this reading “THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.”
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.
cause to become awake or conscious
In this reading “THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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later than; following
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘We aren’t called yet, and it’s quite dark.’
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading Caroline asked, very warm and sleepy.
not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading ‘We aren’t called yet, and it’s quite dark.’
of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England
From this reading Caroline asked, very warm and sleepy.
the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
absence of light or illumination
From this reading ‘We aren’t called yet, and it’s quite dark.’
with resolute determination
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
in a gradual manner
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading ‘We aren’t called yet, and it’s quite dark.’
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
-ing form of “pinch” — squeeze tightly between the fingers
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
to a degree (not used with a negative)
From this reading ‘We aren’t called yet, and it’s quite dark.’
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
ready to fall asleep
From this reading Caroline asked, very warm and sleepy.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
precisely as stated
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
be awake, be alert, be there
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
From this reading Caroline asked, very warm and sleepy.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading ‘We aren’t called yet, and it’s quite dark.’
spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading ‘Why?’
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
From this reading THE MORNING AFTER ‘Wake up!’ whispered Charlotte, sitting up very wide awake and pinching her sister gently but firmly.
but in spite of that
From this reading ‘We aren’t called yet, and it’s quite dark.’
Chapter 9 of The Wonderful Garden by E. (Edith) Nesbit holds 286 sentences, grouped into 58 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 9 holds 286 sentences of The Wonderful Garden, unabridged, divided into 58 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of The Wonderful Garden by E. (Edith) Nesbit exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 286 sentences, grouped into 58 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 58 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 58 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 9 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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