Chapter 5 of Brain Twister is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Brain Twister is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Malone sighed and turned back to the phone. "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said. "She couldn't be. Nobody is. Just a nut."
Chapter 5 of Brain Twister is here in full — 412 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 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.
a person who is in charge
From this reading “"Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.”
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
From this reading “"Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.”
Living forever; never dying or decaying. (Bất tử, trường tồn vĩnh cửu.)
From this reading “"Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.”
English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)
From this reading “Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.”
no person; not anyone
From this reading “Nobody is.”
usually large hard-shelled seed
From this reading “Just a nut."”
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
From this reading “Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.”
past form of “sigh” — heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading “Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 Just a nut."
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "She couldn't be.
a person who is in charge
From this reading "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "She couldn't be.
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
From this reading "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.
Living forever; never dying or decaying. (Bất tử, trường tồn vĩnh cửu.)
From this reading "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Nobody is.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.
and nothing more
From this reading Just a nut."
English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)
From this reading Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.
no person; not anyone
From this reading Nobody is.
usually large hard-shelled seed
From this reading Just a nut."
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
From this reading Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading "Of course she isn't immortal, Chief," he said.
past form of “sigh” — heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.
moved around an axis or center
From this reading Malone sighed and turned back to the phone.
Chapter 5 of Brain Twister by Randall Garrett holds 412 sentences, grouped into 83 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 5 holds 412 sentences of Brain Twister, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Brain Twister by Randall Garrett exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 412 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 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 5 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 342 minutes of reading across 822 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Brain Twister section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Brain Twister, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
