Chapter 2 of Three Plays is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of Three Plays is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
BRIAN We didn't finish to-day. I'll come in to-morrow and finish. MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you. BRIAN Well, what's a day after all? Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.
Chapter 2 of Three Plays is here in full — 413 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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later than; following
From this reading “BRIAN Well, what's a day after all?”
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading “MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.”
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading “BRIAN We didn't finish to-day.”
come or bring to a finish or an end
From this reading “BRIAN We didn't finish to-day.”
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading “Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.”
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading “Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.”
carry out
From this reading “MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.”
the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
From this reading “Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading BRIAN Well, what's a day after all?
later than; following
From this reading BRIAN Well, what's a day after all?
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading BRIAN Well, what's a day after all?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I'll come in to-morrow and finish.
one more of the same kind, or a different one
From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
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From this reading BRIAN We didn't finish to-day.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading I'll come in to-morrow and finish.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
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From this reading BRIAN We didn't finish to-day.
come or bring to a finish or an end
From this reading BRIAN We didn't finish to-day.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.
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From this reading I'll come in to-morrow and finish.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading I'll come in to-morrow and finish.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.
not any; not one
From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.
carry out
From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.
the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
From this reading Many's the day and night I put in thinking on you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading BRIAN We didn't finish to-day.
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From this reading I'll come in to-morrow and finish.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading BRIAN We didn't finish to-day.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading BRIAN Well, what's a day after all?
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From this reading BRIAN Well, what's a day after all?
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From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading MAIRE O no, Brian, we won't take another day from you.
Chapter 2 of Three Plays by Padraic Colum holds 413 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 2 holds 413 sentences of Three Plays, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Three Plays by Padraic Colum exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 413 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.
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