Chapter 27 of Virginia's Ranch Neighbors is here in full — 86 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 27 of Virginia's Ranch Neighbors is here in full — 86 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Letters!! Letters! Who wants a letter?” Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim. “I do!”
Chapter 27 of Virginia's Ranch Neighbors is here in full — 86 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a flexible container with a single opening
From this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
From this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
From this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
From this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
get something; come into possession of
From this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
inflected form of “skip” — bypass
From this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
being of delicate or slender build
From this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
From this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
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.
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In this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
In this reading “Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Who wants a letter?”
a flexible container with a single opening
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “I do!”
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I do!”
a written message addressed to a person or organization
From this reading Who wants a letter?”
the literary culture
From this reading “Letters!!
the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
get something; come into possession of
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
inflected form of “skip” — bypass
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
being of delicate or slender build
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
plural of “want” — a state of extreme poverty
From this reading Who wants a letter?”
which person or people
From this reading Who wants a letter?”
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading Betsy Clossen had skipped out to the wide veranda to receive the mail bag from the good-looking young cowboy Slim.
Chapter 27 of Virginia's Ranch Neighbors by Grace May North holds 86 sentences, grouped into 18 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 27 holds 86 sentences of Virginia's Ranch Neighbors, unabridged, divided into 18 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 27 of Virginia's Ranch Neighbors by Grace May North exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 86 sentences, grouped into 18 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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