Chapter 9 of Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa is here in full — 437 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa is here in full — 437 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"How do, Miss van Rimmel? We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard. She loaded me with loving messages for you. I also have a parcel for the baby. Hope she's fit?"
Chapter 9 of Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa is here in full — 437 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/87 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading “I also have a parcel for the baby.”
be agreeable or acceptable to
From this reading “Hope she's fit?"”
filled with a great quantity
From this reading “She loaded me with loving messages for you.”
feeling or showing love and affection
From this reading “She loaded me with loving messages for you.”
plural of “message” — a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
From this reading “She loaded me with loving messages for you.”
a wrapped container
From this reading “I also have a parcel for the baby.”
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading “We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.”
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
From this reading “"How do, Miss van Rimmel?”
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.
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 I also have a parcel for the baby.
in addition
From this reading I also have a parcel for the baby.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
From this reading I also have a parcel for the baby.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "How do, Miss van Rimmel?
be agreeable or acceptable to
From this reading Hope she's fit?"
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading She loaded me with loving messages for you.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading I also have a parcel for the baby.
a specific instance of feeling hopeful
From this reading Hope she's fit?"
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "How do, Miss van Rimmel?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
filled with a great quantity
From this reading She loaded me with loving messages for you.
feeling or showing love and affection
From this reading She loaded me with loving messages for you.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She loaded me with loving messages for you.
plural of “message” — a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
From this reading She loaded me with loving messages for you.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading "How do, Miss van Rimmel?
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
a wrapped container
From this reading I also have a parcel for the baby.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "How do, Miss van Rimmel?
cut with a saw
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She loaded me with loving messages for you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hope she's fit?"
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I also have a parcel for the baby.
from one end or side of something to the other
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
From this reading "How do, Miss van Rimmel?
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
in the company of; together with
From this reading She loaded me with loving messages for you.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading She loaded me with loving messages for you.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading We came through Umtali and I saw your sister, Mrs Stannard.
Chapter 9 of Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley holds 437 sentences, grouped into 88 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 9 holds 437 sentences of Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa, unabridged, divided into 88 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 437 sentences, grouped into 88 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 88 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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