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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 The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
Adjoining
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
AsconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
bark
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
bleak
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
boy
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
cabin
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
children
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
clattering
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
corn-crib
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
diminutive
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
drove
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
falling
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
farm
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
father
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
gleefully
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
hand
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
held
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
highway
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
hillside
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
house
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
Joel
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
Joel's
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
keep
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
lean-to
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
little-used
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
log
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
loose
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
made
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
main
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
meet
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
oak
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
only
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
out
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
pine
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
planks
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
poles
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
rain-washed
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
ran
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
rattled
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
red
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
renting
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
road
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
roofed
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
rooms
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
runningnounUS /ˈrunning/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
sawn
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
shed
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
shingles
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
shouting
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
sister's
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
situated
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
slope
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
split
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From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
stop
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From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
takenounUS /take/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The boy held his sister's hand to keep her from falling, and was gleefully shouting to his father to stop and take them into the wagon.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
three
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
Tilly
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
treeless
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From this reading The house was a log cabin of only three rooms, situated on a bleak, treeless hillside.
two
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
up
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From this reading As he drove his clattering wagon up the slope his two children, little Joel and Tilly, ran out to meet him.
wagon
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From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The loose planks on Joel's wagon rattled over the rain-washed and little-used road running from the main highway to the farm he was renting.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Adjoining it was a diminutive corn-crib made of pine poles with the bark still on them, and a lean-to shed which was roofed with long shingles sawn and split from red oak.
