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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Gulliver's Travels” begins
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons.
He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Gulliver's Travels” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- master
- observe
- desire
- creature
- kingdom
- virtue
- minister
- wholly
- likewise
- command
- thus
- fortune
- liberty
- vessel
- inhabitant
- inch
- justice
- bear
- curiosity
- confess
- conceive
- species
- whence
- affair
- assure
- discourse
- empire
- disposition
- countenance
- inform
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Gulliver's Travels”
How much of each kind of grammar “Gulliver's Travels” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Perfect tenses
- Phrasal verbs
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Past participle clause A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high.
- Relative clauses with where I lay all night in the cave where I had lodged my provisions.
- Phrasal verb with 'down' They all sat down in a circle about me, the better to observe my motions.
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About the book
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