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Read “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” begins
“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- remark
- indeed
- gentleman
- hardly
- glance
- observe
- pray
- rush
- goose
- strike
- companion
- remain
- fellow
- client
- lay
- occur
- lip
- obvious
- inspector
- colonel
- examine
- absolutely
- cry
- marriage
- place
- passage
- mystery
- hurry
- spring
- lane
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Perfect tenses
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Phrasal verbs
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- At/on/in (time) I will leave your house in the morning and make my own way in the world.
- Subject relative clause with who/that/which I have already learned all that is in the public prints, nothing more.
- Past perfect active It was the same good friend whose warning I had so foolishly rejected.
Counted the way the Reader shows it: one card per construction in a sentence. Open the book in the Reader and tap a highlighted phrase to see the rule.
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a great book to read in English
Twelve cases told by Dr Watson: a scandal in Bohemia, a league of red-headed men, a speckled band in the night. Each Sherlock Holmes story is a self-contained puzzle of 20-odd pages — the classic recommendation for learners who want plot pulling them through real Victorian English.
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