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Chapter III
OUT IN THE WORLD. I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed. What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper? Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts. I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?”
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading “I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.”
above and across; more than
From this reading “What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.”
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.”
but in spite of that
From this reading “Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.”
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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 AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
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From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
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From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
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From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
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From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
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From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading OUT IN THE WORLD.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
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From this reading OUT IN THE WORLD.
above and across; more than
From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
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From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
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From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
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From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
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From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading OUT IN THE WORLD.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
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From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
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From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What is the use of trying to live pain over again on paper?
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
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From this reading I wonder if you ever went through a large, elegantly furnished house, from room to room, and dismantled it?
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From this reading OUT IN THE WORLD.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet some people need practice of this sort to enable them to have any idea of the sorrows of other hearts.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading I AM not sure that I would, even if I could, give you a detailed account of the days which followed.
