Chapter 6 of Windows is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Windows is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
MRS MARCH. Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl? MR MARCH. No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH. Oh!
Chapter 6 of Windows is here in full — 440 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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give sanction to
From this reading “Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?”
deeply involved especially in something complicated
From this reading “Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?”
the act of acquiring something
From this reading “Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?”
a young female
From this reading “Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?”
“Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading “Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?”
march in a procession
From this reading “MRS MARCH.”
the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics
From this reading “No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.”
a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
From this reading “No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.”
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.
In this reading “Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?”
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give sanction to
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
deeply involved especially in something complicated
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
the act of acquiring something
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
a young female
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.
“Johnny” was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; “greyback” derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
march in a procession
From this reading MRS MARCH.
the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics
From this reading No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.
a form of address for a man
From this reading MR MARCH.
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading MRS MARCH.
not any; not one
From this reading No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh!
and nothing more
From this reading No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.
a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
From this reading No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading No. I was only saying to Mary-- MRS MARCH.
in the company of; together with
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl?
Chapter 6 of Windows by John Galsworthy holds 440 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 6 holds 440 sentences of Windows, unabridged, divided into 88 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Windows by John Galsworthy exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 440 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.
Each of the 88 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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About 256 minutes of reading across 617 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Windows, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
