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The Opening Paragraphs of
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
(Translated by Constance Garnett)
Answer Key for Level 2
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      Happy families are all alike (PA); every unhappy family

is unhappy (PA) {in its own way}.

     Everything was {in confusion} {in the Oblonskys' house}.

The wife had discovered[CNE] that the husband was carrying

on an intrigue (DO) {with a French girl}, who had been a

governess (PN) {in their family}, and she had announced[CNE]

{to her husband} that she could not go on living (DO)[Note #1]

{in the same house} {with him}. This position {of affairs} had now

lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife

themselves, but all the members {of their family and 

household}, were painfully conscious (PA) {of it}. Every

person {in the house} felt[CNE] that there[Note] was no sense 

(PN) {in their living together}, and that the stray people

brought[Note #2] together {by chance} {in any inn} had more (DO)

{in common} {with one another} than they, the members {of the

family and household} {of the Oblonskys}. The wife did not

leave her own room (DO), the husband had not been

{at home} {for three days}. The children ran wild (PA)[Note]

all {over the house}; the English governess quarreled {with the

housekeeper}, and wrote {to a friend} asking her to look out

for a new situation {for her}; the man-cook had walked off

the day {before}just {at dinner-time}; the kitchen-maid, and

the coachman had given warning (DO).

       Three days {after the quarrel}, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch

Oblonsky -- Stiva, as he was called {in the fashionable world}

-- woke up {at his usual hour}, that is[CNE], {at eight o'clock}

{in the morning}, not {in his wife's bedroom,} but {on the 

leather-covered sofa} {in his study}. He turned over his stout, 

well-cared-for person (DO) {on the springy sofa}, as though

he would sink {into a long sleep} again; he vigorously embraced

the pillow (DO) {on the other side} and buried his face (DO)

{in it}; but all {at once} he jumped up, sat up {on the sofa},

and opened his eyes (DO).
 

Project Gutenberg
nkrnn10.zip

Notes

1. "Go on" means "continue."

2. It does not mean the people brought *something*; it means "the people *were* brought together." Therefore "brought" is not finite. See "Finding Finite Verbs."
 
 

Progress:
Total Words = 308 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  127  41
L1: + Adj & Adverbs 62 61
+ L2: S / V / C 94 92

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