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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
All
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
beeches
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
big
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
birch-trees
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
Castle
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
CHARITIES
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From this reading THE THREE CHARITIES.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
counting
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
country
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
dark
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
decay
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From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
elms
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
eloquent
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
fairy
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
feet
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
fragrance
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
full
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
George's
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
green
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
grow
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
highest
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
holly-bushes
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
indefinable
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
level
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
live
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
lovely
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From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
monsters
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
oaks
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
one's
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
only
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From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
perfection
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From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
perhaps
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
pinnacle
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
place
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
prickly
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
primroses
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
ripe
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From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
spring
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
St
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
straggling
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
straight
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
suggestion
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From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
suggests
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From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
summer
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
Sunninghill
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From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
sweet
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
tall
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE THREE CHARITIES.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
there
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From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
thick
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
thingnounUS /thing/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
THREE
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From this reading THE THREE CHARITIES.
ToparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
too
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
trees
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
triumph
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
very
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From this reading All that country is eloquent with trees--big beeches, big oaks, straight elms, sweet birch-trees; even the very holly-bushes, in their dark green, grow tall into prickly, straggling monsters, as big as the elms.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading In the ripe summer there was no such lovely suggestion about; all was at that perfection which suggests only decay.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading To live at Sunninghill, with one’s feet on a level with the highest pinnacle of the big Castle at St. George’s, what a thing it was in summer!
woods
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From this reading But the triumph of the place perhaps is in spring, when the primroses come too thick for counting, and the woods are full of their fairy, indefinable fragrance.
