Chapter 2 of Blind Policy is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Blind Policy is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor. You cannot. So act sensibly. Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient. Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
Chapter 2 of Blind Policy is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
From this reading “So act sensibly.”
be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.
From this reading “Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.”
a licensed medical practitioner
From this reading “"We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.”
that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
From this reading “Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"”
not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with
From this reading “"We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.”
a person who requires medical care
From this reading “Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.”
snacks and drinks served as a light meal
From this reading “Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.”
with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner
From this reading “So act sensibly.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.”
In this reading “Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"”
In this reading “Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
From this reading So act sensibly.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.
From this reading Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You cannot.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
a licensed medical practitioner
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
From this reading Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
many times at short intervals
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
a person who requires medical care
From this reading Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.
snacks and drinks served as a light meal
From this reading Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
From this reading Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner
From this reading So act sensibly.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So act sensibly.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.
carry out
From this reading Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading "We often mean to do things that are impossible, doctor.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Will you have the goodness to look round this room?"
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading You cannot.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Take some refreshment, and attend to your patient.
Chapter 2 of Blind Policy by George Manville Fenn holds 417 sentences, grouped into 84 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 2 holds 417 sentences of Blind Policy, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Blind Policy by George Manville Fenn exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 sentences, grouped into 84 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 2 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 383 minutes of reading across 920 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Blind Policy section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Blind Policy, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
