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Chapter X
'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it? Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act. That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part. And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father. All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.”
later than; following
From this reading “And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.”
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading “'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?”
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading “'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.”
to think that something will happen
From this reading “And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.”
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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 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
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From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
later than; following
From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
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From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
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From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
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From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
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From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
to think that something will happen
From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
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From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
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From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
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From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
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From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
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From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
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From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
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From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading All I can say about it now is I hope I didn't look as foolish as I felt.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
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From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
at the time that
From this reading Course, at first, when it's sprung on you so kind of sudden, you hardly know how to act.
in the company of; together with
From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading 'IKKY-BOY COMES ALONG Being a parent grows on you, don't it?
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From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
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From this reading And I expect for a few months there, after young Richard Hemmingway Ballard came and settled down with Vee and me, I put up kind of a ragged amateur performance as a fond father.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading That is, if you're makin' your debut in the part.
