Chapter 1 of Visibility—Zero is here in full — 495 sentences across 99 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Visibility—Zero is here in full — 495 sentences across 99 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow? Not Hardly. Nor Was He a Wild Fool. Just a Regular Human Being. “Not a chance!”
Chapter 1 of Visibility—Zero is here in full — 495 sentences across 99 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
From this reading “Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow?”
a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading “Nor Was He a Wild Fool.”
only a very short time before
From this reading “Not Hardly.”
characteristic of humanity
From this reading “Just a Regular Human Being.”
operate an airplane
From this reading “Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow?”
in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
From this reading “Just a Regular Human Being.”
marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
From this reading “Nor Was He a Wild Fool.”
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
From this reading “Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow?”
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.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Nor Was He a Wild Fool.
an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
From this reading Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow?
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading Just a Regular Human Being.
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
From this reading “Not a chance!”
a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading Nor Was He a Wild Fool.
only a very short time before
From this reading Not Hardly.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Nor Was He a Wild Fool.
characteristic of humanity
From this reading Just a Regular Human Being.
and nothing more
From this reading Just a Regular Human Being.
and not; used after a negative to add a second negative
From this reading Nor Was He a Wild Fool.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Not Hardly.
operate an airplane
From this reading Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow?
in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
From this reading Just a Regular Human Being.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow?
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow?
marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
From this reading Nor Was He a Wild Fool.
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
From this reading Was this Airplane Pilot Yellow?
Chapter 1 of Visibility—Zero by Myron M. (Myron Morris) Stearns holds 495 sentences, grouped into 99 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 1 holds 495 sentences of Visibility—Zero, unabridged, divided into 99 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Visibility—Zero by Myron M. (Myron Morris) Stearns exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 495 sentences, grouped into 99 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 99 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 99 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 1 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 41 minutes of reading across 99 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Visibility—Zero section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Visibility—Zero, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
