Chapter 6 of Tiverton Tales is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VI
Chapter 6 of Tiverton Tales is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully. "I'll tell you how. I've had it all planned for a month. We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long. We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
Chapter 6 of Tiverton Tales is here in full — 419 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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behave as expected during of holidays or rites
From this reading “"And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.”
in a skillfully masterful manner; with the skill of a master
From this reading “"And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.”
one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
From this reading “I've had it all planned for a month.”
a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
From this reading “We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.”
designed or carried out according to a plan
From this reading “I've had it all planned for a month.”
a small lake
From this reading “We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.”
sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
From this reading “We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.”
(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
From this reading “We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.”
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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 I've had it all planned for a month.
(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 I've had it all planned for a month.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
a small vessel for travel on water
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
eat an early morning meal
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
behave as expected during of holidays or rites
From this reading "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
take in solid food
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading I've had it all planned for a month.
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading I've had it all planned for a month.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "I'll tell you how.
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From this reading "I'll tell you how.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I've had it all planned for a month.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I've had it all planned for a month.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
in a skillfully masterful manner; with the skill of a master
From this reading "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.
one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
From this reading I've had it all planned for a month.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
above and across; more than
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
designed or carried out according to a plan
From this reading I've had it all planned for a month.
a small lake
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.
(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
carry out
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
express in words
From this reading "I'll tell you how.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading We'll take a boat and go out rowin', and we'll eat our dinner on the water!"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We'll get up at four, have our breakfast, ride over to Star Pond, and picnic all day long.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "And we've got to celebrate," said Letty masterfully.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "I'll tell you how.
Chapter 6 of Tiverton Tales by Alice Brown holds 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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 6 holds 419 sentences of Tiverton Tales, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Tiverton Tales by Alice Brown exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 419 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Tiverton Tales, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
