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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Pride and Prejudice” begins
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 28 words you will meet most often in “Pride and Prejudice” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- assure
- affection
- settle
- dare
- carriage
- observe
- civility
- pride
- circumstance
- scarcely
- agreeable
- engage
- bear
- fortune
- mean
- former
- resolve
- regard
- amiable
- merely
- concern
- engagement
- afterwards
- oblige
- comfort
- instantly
- master
- astonishment
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Pride and Prejudice”
How much of each kind of grammar “Pride and Prejudice” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Passive voice
- Perfect tenses
- Modal verbs
- Relative clauses
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Phrasal verbs
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verbs with 'out' (find out, carry out, work out) But I cannot find out that Jane saw anything of him in London.
- try to do Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme; assuring him that Mr.
- Whose (possession) Gardiner, whose curiosity as to the mode of her intelligence was all alive.
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why Pride and Prejudice is a great book to read in English
Elizabeth Bennet spars with the proud Mr Darcy in the wittiest courtship in English literature. Austen's 1813 comedy of manners runs on dialogue — sharp, ironic, beautifully built — and its 61 short chapters make a long novel feel like a series of scenes.
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