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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 Hound of the Baskervilles” begins
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
I stood upon the hearthrug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.” Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
“To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S. , from his friends of the C.C.H. ,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Hound of the Baskervilles” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- moor
- hound
- fellow
- indeed
- gentleman
- cry
- hut
- observe
- convict
- darkness
- swear
- affair
- remain
- creature
- surely
- truth
- strike
- fear
- escape
- glad
- stare
- therefore
- nerve
- examine
- shadow
- possibly
- hardly
- master
- occur
- connection
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Hound of the Baskervilles” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Perfect tenses
- Relative clauses
- Modal verbs
- Passive voice
- Reported speech
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Phrasal verbs
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- At/on/in (time) In the evening he recurred to the subject of his own accord.
- Subject relative clause with who/that/which Halfway down this walk there is a gate which leads out on to the moor.
- Past perfect active “It only remains to indicate the part which she had played throughout.
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