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Chapter I
As pretty as a picture? Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day! My brother, Perry, always was a bit cracked. As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments. When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
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for the reason that
From this reading “Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!”
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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 As pretty as a picture?
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From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
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From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
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From this reading My brother, Perry, always was a bit cracked.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As pretty as a picture?
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From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
for the reason that
From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
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From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
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From this reading My brother, Perry, always was a bit cracked.
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From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
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From this reading My brother, Perry, always was a bit cracked.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
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From this reading My brother, Perry, always was a bit cracked.
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From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
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From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
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From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
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From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
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From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
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From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
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From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
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From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My brother, Perry, always was a bit cracked.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
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From this reading My brother, Perry, always was a bit cracked.
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From this reading As pretty as a picture?
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From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
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From this reading As pretty as a picture?
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From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
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From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
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From this reading As a kid, he almost blew up our house doing experiments.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
at the time that
From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
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From this reading When he was eighteen, he wrote poetry, but fortunately that didn't last long and he went back to science.
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From this reading Yes, because that was all she was ... or would become some day!
