Advanced Grammar Structures:

1. Inversion: "Never had such a soul existed in that picturesque ruin on the loneliest and wildest of
all the hilltops of Judea" (Chapter 2).

2. Relative clause: "It was the portrait that had done everything. Basil Hallward had said things to
him that were unbearable, and that he had yet borne with patience" (Chapter 11).

3. Gerund phrase: "He felt a mad desire to shriek back at her, to insult her, to tell her the truth"
(Chapter 6).

4. Participial phrase: "He had a beautiful nature, and a nature that warred with itself" (Chapter 2).

5. Infinitive phrase: "To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul"
(Chapter 2).

6. Parallel structure: "He was simple and unsophisticated, this dear friend of mine, and I was a
great deal of both" (Chapter 1).

7. Conditional sentence: "If one could only get that pattern into the mind and life, one would be a
better man" (Chapter 11).

8. Passive voice: "He had been used to fanciful ways, had been haled about by disreputable
companions, and had been afflicted with bad health" (Chapter 2).

9. Ellipsis: "It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for"
(Chapter 20).

10. Appositive phrase: "The lad was not sorry for his visit. He had been bored by the reception all
the morning, and he thought that this was a great deal livelier and more amusing" (Chapter 8).

Idioms:

1. In hot water: "You'll get into hot water" (Chapter 6).

2. At one's wits' end: "I am at my wits' end" (Chapter 9).

3. A bolt from the blue: "It was like a sudden rise of the curtain on a play that had bewildered him"
(Chapter 9).

4. To give the devil his due: "I must give the devil his due" (Chapter 1).

5. To have a finger in every pie: "I have a finger in every pie" (Chapter 3).

6. To stick to one's guns: "I am going to stick to my guns" (Chapter 10).

7. To break the ice: "I really must go, you know. It's half-past twelve. I'm afraid you'll have to
excuse me, Mr. Gray. I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again very shortly" (Chapter 2).

8. A storm in a teacup: "It is a storm in a teacup, Watson" (Chapter 8).

9. To cry over spilt milk: "It is no use crying over spilt milk" (Chapter 3).

10. To have one's cake and eat it too: "You want to have your cake and eat it too" (Chapter 2).

Phrasal verbs:

1. Look up to: "I have always looked up to you" (Chapter 9).

2. Look after: "Who is going to look after you when I am gone?" (Chapter 20).
 3. Turn out: "It turned out to be the commonest of coins" (Chapter 3).

4. Take off: "He took off his coat

Collocations:

1. Noble blood: "He had the noble profile, the classic beauty of the antique bust" (Chapter 2).

2. Secret sorrow: "Behind the gold and the pomp and the purple, he was hiding a secret sorrow"
(Chapter 20).

3. Withered rose: "It was like the face of a withered rose" (Chapter 11).

4. Wild pleasure: "He had gone to his room, and had shut himself in, and was lying on the bed,
languidly smoking a cigarette, and looking at the wild, rough boys below and wondering"
(Chapter 6).

5. Bitter regret: "His face grew more haggard, and there was a new note of fear in his voice as he
spoke. The elder man lay back and looked at him with half-closed eyes. 'Get up, Dorian,' he said
at last, 'and don't talk so loud. The whole of London knows already that you are quite innocent. .
. . Bitter, bitter is the solitude of the egoist'" (Chapter 19).

6. Faint smile: "His eyes met Dorian's in the glass, and he watched the reflection of them smiling.
Suddenly, however, his eye fell on the screen that he had placed in front of the portrait, and he
started" (Chapter 12).

7. White face: "His white, delicate, pointed fingers" (Chapter 1).

8. Golden age: "We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of
autobiography" (Chapter 11).

9. Brilliant career: "There had been a great deal of talk about it at the time, but nothing came of it.
Perhaps it was because his career was just beginning" (Chapter 4).

10. Eternal youth: "Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall
kill myself" (Chapter 2).

Linkers:

1. Moreover: "Moreover, he was a Roman Catholic and not a Protestant" (Chapter 1).

2. Therefore: "Therefore, come what might, he would try the adventure" (Chapter 3).

3. Nevertheless: "Nevertheless, he felt oppressed" (Chapter 2).

4. Consequently: "Consequently, he had nothing to do but to weep" (Chapter 3).

5. In addition: "In addition, he had blue eyes and curly, fair hair" (Chapter 2).

6. Nonetheless: "Nonetheless, he felt a keen pang of disappointment" (Chapter 4).

7. Furthermore: "Furthermore, he had a great deal to say to the eldest son of his old friend"
(Chapter 1).

8. Meanwhile: "Meanwhile, the young man had drifted away again" (Chapter 3).

9. In contrast: "In contrast, the portrait seemed to have a life of its own" (Chapter 8).

10. Likewise: "Likewise, he felt that he had been the first to discover the secret of the portrait"
(Chapter 11).