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Chapter IX
Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home. Feather had excited as well as allured him. Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother? Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee? She was little enough to be held on knees!
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very enthusiastic or eager
From this reading “Feather had excited as well as allured him.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “She was little enough to be held on knees!”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Feather had excited as well as allured him.”
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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 Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
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From this reading Feather had excited as well as allured him.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading She was little enough to be held on knees!
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From this reading Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
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From this reading Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
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From this reading She was little enough to be held on knees!
very enthusiastic or eager
From this reading Feather had excited as well as allured him.
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From this reading Feather had excited as well as allured him.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Feather had excited as well as allured him.
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From this reading Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
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From this reading She was little enough to be held on knees!
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Feather had excited as well as allured him.
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From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
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From this reading Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
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From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
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From this reading She was little enough to be held on knees!
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She was little enough to be held on knees!
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From this reading Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
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From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
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From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
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From this reading Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
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From this reading Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?
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From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
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From this reading Donal talked a great deal as he pranced home.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Why did she never show her pictures in the Nursery and hold her on her knee?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading She was little enough to be held on knees!
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?
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From this reading Feather had excited as well as allured him.
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From this reading Why hadn’t she told Robin she was her mother?
