Chapter 17 of Virginia's Adventure Club is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 17 of Virginia's Adventure Club is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?” Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms. “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter. I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.” “Maybe it was only a bill, after all.
Chapter 17 of Virginia's Adventure Club is here in full — 107 sentences across 22 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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in actual fact
From this reading ““She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.”
a statute in draft before it becomes law
From this reading ““Maybe it was only a bill, after all.”
the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
From this reading “Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.”
by chance
From this reading ““Maybe it was only a bill, after all.”
apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
From this reading “Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.”
a word or expression used for some particular thing
From this reading “I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.””
past form of “troop” — march in a procession
From this reading “Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.”
on a floor above
From this reading “Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.”
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.
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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 “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
in actual fact
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
later than; following
From this reading “Maybe it was only a bill, 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 “Maybe it was only a bill, after all.
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
accept as true; take to be true
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
a statute in draft before it becomes law
From this reading “Maybe it was only a bill, after all.
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
past form of “exclaim” — utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
plural of “girl” — a young female
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
the -ing form of “have”
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
characteristic of humanity
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “Maybe it was only a bill, after all.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
a written message addressed to a person or organization
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
by chance
From this reading “Maybe it was only a bill, after all.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
and nothing more
From this reading “Maybe it was only a bill, after all.
conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
past form of “smile” — change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
a word or expression used for some particular thing
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS “Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?”
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
past form of “troop” — march in a procession
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
on a floor above
From this reading Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “Maybe it was only a bill, after all.
at the time that
From this reading “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter.
Chapter 17 of Virginia's Adventure Club by Grace May North holds 107 sentences, grouped into 22 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 17 holds 107 sentences of Virginia's Adventure Club, unabridged, divided into 22 reading sections.
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