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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Middlemarch” begins
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible—or from one of our elder poets—in a paragraph of today’s newspaper.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 28 words you will meet most often in “Middlemarch” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- tone
- fellow
- bear
- soul
- observe
- notion
- consciousness
- affair
- regard
- hinder
- fond
- oblige
- creature
- seat
- circumstance
- conscious
- vision
- presence
- debt
- self
- pause
- judgment
- prospect
- slight
- suspicion
- entirely
- concern
- motive
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Middlemarch”
How much of each kind of grammar “Middlemarch” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Relative clauses
- Perfect tenses
- Modal verbs
- Passive voice
- Phrasal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Past participle clause Casaubon, born Dorothea Brooke, had taken her wedding journey to Rome.
- Verb + object + to-infinitive “But that isn’t a good word: he didn’t tell them to write on slates.
- Phrasal verbs with 'out' (find out, carry out, work out) In carrying out this bequest of labor to Dorothea, as in all else, Mr.
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About the book
Why Middlemarch is a great book to read in English
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