Chapter 3 of The Wouldbegoods is here in full — 313 sentences across 63 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of The Wouldbegoods is here in full — 313 sentences across 63 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two. That is the horses were two and two, and the men not. Because each man was riding one horse and leading another. To exercise them. They came from Chatham Barracks.
Chapter 3 of The Wouldbegoods is here in full — 313 sentences across 63 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
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From this reading Because each man was riding one horse and leading another.
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From this reading They came from Chatham Barracks.
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From this reading Because each man was riding one horse and leading another.
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From this reading They came from Chatham Barracks.
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From this reading They came from Chatham Barracks.
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From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Because each man was riding one horse and leading another.
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From this reading To exercise them.
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From this reading They came from Chatham Barracks.
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From this reading Because each man was riding one horse and leading another.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That is the horses were two and two, and the men not.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Because each man was riding one horse and leading another.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Because each man was riding one horse and leading another.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That is the horses were two and two, and the men not.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That is the horses were two and two, and the men not.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Because each man was riding one horse and leading another.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading That is the horses were two and two, and the men not.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading To exercise them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They came from Chatham Barracks.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading To exercise them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Because each man was riding one horse and leading another.
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From this reading There were soldiers riding down the road, on horses two and two.
Chapter 3 of The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit holds 313 sentences, grouped into 63 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 313 sentences of The Wouldbegoods, unabridged, divided into 63 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 313 sentences, grouped into 63 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 63 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 63 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 393 minutes of reading across 945 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Wouldbegoods, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
