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CURTIS--[Squeezing her.] Silly girl! MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome? CURTIS--[Kisses her--tenderly.] Martha! What a foolish question, sweetheart. If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.”
all things; all of a situation
From this reading “If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.”
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.”
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “What a foolish question, sweetheart.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?”
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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 What a foolish question, sweetheart.
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading CURTIS--[Squeezing her.] Silly girl!
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
all things; all of a situation
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading What a foolish question, sweetheart.
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From this reading CURTIS--[Squeezing her.] Silly girl!
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From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading CURTIS--[Squeezing her.] Silly girl!
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
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From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
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From this reading CURTIS--[Kisses her--tenderly.] Martha!
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading What a foolish question, sweetheart.
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From this reading CURTIS--[Squeezing her.] Silly girl!
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading CURTIS--[Squeezing her.] Silly girl!
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading What a foolish question, sweetheart.
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From this reading CURTIS--[Kisses her--tenderly.] Martha!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
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From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
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From this reading If we ever have to grow old, we'll do it together just as we've always done everything.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What a foolish question, sweetheart.
at the time that
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
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From this reading MARTHA--[Snuggling close to him.] Will you always love me--even when I'm old and ugly and feeble and you're still young and strong and handsome?
