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Read “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain 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 Tom Sawyer” begins
No answer.
No answer.
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- presently
- reckon
- widow
- cave
- whisper
- pirate
- while
- spirit
- candle
- judge
- breath
- master
- wonder
- fence
- bet
- lad
- occur
- lay
- bear
- stir
- glad
- tear
- bury
- tavern
- hang
- soul
- hardly
- suffer
- stare
- lip
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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Passive voice
- Relative clauses
- Perfect tenses
- Phrasal verbs
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verb with on/off Everybody knows—the widow, too, for all she tries to let on she don’t.
- At/on/in (time) “Yes, but, Huck, ghosts don’t travel around only at night.
- Past perfect active Moreover, he wanted to assure himself that Huck had remained discreet.
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.
Library
What you get while you read
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a great book to read in English
Whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, treasure in a cave: Tom Sawyer's Mississippi boyhood is one adventure after another. Twain's 1876 novel is funny and fast, and its everyday, spoken-flavoured English is a great bridge between learner texts and the classics.
On LangOrbit you read “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” 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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