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Read “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde 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 Importance of Being Earnest” begins
Scene: Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street.
The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished.
The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 27 words you will meet most often in “The Importance of Being Earnest” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- lane
- darling
- engage
- propose
- fellow
- engagement
- absurd
- somewhat
- heaven
- beg
- merely
- unfortunate
- ward
- nonsense
- fond
- entirely
- severe
- embrace
- forgive
- pause
- consent
- wicked
- moral
- slight
- absolute
- anxious
- chill
The meanings here are the everyday ones. In the reader, tap a word to see the sense this sentence uses.
Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Importance of Being Earnest”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Importance of Being Earnest” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Perfect tenses
- Passive voice
- Modal verbs
- Phrasal verbs
- Relative clauses
- Conditionals
- Reported speech
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verb with 'up' (particle) Jack My dear fellow, the sooner you give up that nonsense the better.
- Subject relative clause with who/that/which A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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 Importance of Being Earnest is a great book to read in English
On LangOrbit you read “The Importance of Being Earnest” with a safety net: the translation is one tap away when a sentence runs long, every word opens its meaning in context and can be saved for spaced-repetition review, and the grammar behind the trickier lines is explained right where you meet it.
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