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The Opening Paragraphs of
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
(Translated by Constance Garnett)
Answer Key for Level 1
Current technology makes it extremely difficult to draw lines, etc. from word to word in web documents. In Level One, I have therefore indicated words modified by prepositional phrases in following brackets. These brackets will be deleted in the answer keys to subsequent levels.
 
      Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is 

unhappy {in its own way}. [Adverb to "unhappy"]

     Everything was {in confusion} [Adverb to "was" or Adjective

to "Everything"] {in the Oblonskys' house}. [Adverb to "was" or

Adjective to "Everything"] The wife had discovered that the 

husband was carrying on an intrigue {with a French girl},

[Adjective to "intrigue" or Adverb to "was carrying on"] who had been 

a governess {in their family}, [Adjective to "governess"] and she 

had announced {to her husband} [Adverb to "announced"] that 

she could not go on living {in the same house} [Adverb to 

"living"] {with him}. [Adverb to "living"] This position {of affairs}

[Adjective to "position"] had now lasted three days, and not only 

the husband and wife themselves, but all the members {of 

their family and household}, [Adjective to "members"] were 

painfully conscious {of it}. [Adverb to "conscious"] Every person

{in the house} [Adjective to "person"] felt that there was no sense

{in their living together[Note # 1]}, [Adjective to "sense"] and that 

the stray people brought together {by chance} [Adverb to 

"brought"] {in any inn} [Adverb to "brought" ot to "together"] had 

more {in common} [Adjective to an ellipsed "more *things*"] {with 

one another} [Adjective to "common"] than[Note # 2] they, the 

members {of the family and household} [Adjective to

"members"] {of the Oblonskys}. [Adjective to "family" and 

"household"] The wife did not leave her own room, the 

husband had not been {at home} [Adverb to "had been"] {for 

three days}. [Adverb to "had been" or to "not"] The children ran

wild all {over the house}; [Adverb to "ran"] the English 

governess quarreled {with the housekeeper}, [Adverb to 

"quarreled"] and wrote {to a friend} [Adverb to "wrote"] asking

her to look out for[Note # 3] a new situation {for her}; [Adjective

to "situation"] the man-cook had walked off[Note # 4] the day 

{before}[Note # 5] just {at dinner-time}; [Adverb to "walked off"]

the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning.

     Three days {after the quarrel}, [Adjective to "days"] Prince 

Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky -- Stiva, as he was called {in

the fashionable world} [Adverb to "was called"] -- woke up {at

his usual hour}, [Adverb to "woke up"] that is, {at eight o'clock}

[Adverb to "woke up"] {in the morning}, [Adjective to "clock"] not

{in his wife's bedroom}, [Adverb to "woke up"] but {on the 

leather-covered sofa} [Adverb to "woke up"] {in his study}.

[Adjective to "sofa"] He turned over his stout, well-cared-for

person {on the springy sofa}, [Adverb to "turned over"] as though

he would sink {into a long sleep} [Adverb to "would sink"] again;

he vigorously embraced the pillow {on the other side} [Adverb 

to "embraced," or possibly Adjective to "pillow"] and buried his face

{in it}; [Adverb to "buried"] but all {at once} [Adverb to "jumped 

up"] he jumped up, sat up {on the sofa}, [Adverb to "sat up"]

and opened his eyes.
 

Project Gutenberg
nkrnn10.zip


Notes

1. I cheated and counted "together" as part of the phrase. (It's actually an adverb modifying "living.")

2. If you marked "than they" as a prepositional phrase, do not count it as an error. It's an expected mistake at this level.

3. If you marked this as either -- "{out for a new situation}" or "out {for a new situation}," do not count it as an error.

4. Or, "{off *the job*}."

5. I'll bet you missed this one. The phrase "the day before" means "the day {before *the day {in question*}}. The "before" prepositional phrase thereby becomes adjectival to "day." If you missed it, ignore it -- unless you made the nonsensical {before just} mistake, which is the result of not thinking about the meaning. In that case, shame on you. ;)
 

Progress:
Total Words = 308 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  127  41

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