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3 | BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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3 | BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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3 | BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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10 | “Whenever you feel like criticising any one,” he told me, “just remember that
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11 | all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
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15 | consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up
16 | many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran
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17 | bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality
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18 | when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was
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19 | unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs
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20 | of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have
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20 | of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have
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21 | feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some
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22 | unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for
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23 | the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they
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24 | express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
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23 | the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they
24 | express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
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24 | express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
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27 | snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out
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28 | unequally at birth.
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32 | after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from
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33 | the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a
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34 | sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with
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35 | privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his
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37 | everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken
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38 | series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some
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39 | heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of
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40 | those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This
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40 | those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This
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41 | responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is
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42 | dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”—it was an extraordinary
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43 | gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other
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44 | person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out
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44 | person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out
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45 | all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the
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46 | wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive
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47 | sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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46 | wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive
47 | sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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50 | three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a
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51 | tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual
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52 | founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one,
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53 | sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business
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54 | that my father carries on to-day.
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50 | three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a
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51 | tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual
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52 | founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one,
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61 | restless. Instead of being the warm centre of the world, the Middle West now
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62 | seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn
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69 | The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a warm season, and
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70 | I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man
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71 | at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town, it
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72 | sounded like a great idea. He found the house, a weatherbeaten cardboard
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72 | sounded like a great idea. He found the house, a weatherbeaten cardboard
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73 | bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to
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74 | Washington, and I went out to the country alone. I had a dog—at least I had him
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75 | for a few days until he ran away—and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made
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76 | my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the
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77 | electric stove.
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93 | down out of the young breath-giving air. I bought a dozen volumes on banking and
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94 | credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold
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95 | like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only
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96 | Midas and Morgan and Mæcenas knew. And I had the high intention of reading many
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95 | like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only
96 | Midas and Morgan and Mæcenas knew. And I had the high intention of reading many
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97 | other books besides. I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series
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98 | of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News—and now I was going to
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99 | bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of
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100 | all specialists, the “well-rounded man.” This isn’t just an epigram—life is much
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106 | natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city
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107 | a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy
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108 | bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western
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109 | hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not perfect
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119 | thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it
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120 | was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one
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121 | side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool,
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122 | and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion. Or,
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119 | thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it
120 | was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one
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119 | thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it
120 | was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one
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120 | was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one
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121 | side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool,
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120 | was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one
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121 | side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool,
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124 | of that name. My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it
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125 | had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my
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126 | neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty
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127 | dollars a month.
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131 | drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second
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135 | Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most
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136 | powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way,
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137 | one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that
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138 | everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously
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138 | everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously
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139 | wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now
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140 | he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away:
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141 | for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was
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145 | particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people
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146 | played polo and were rich together. This was a permanent move, said Daisy over
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146 | played polo and were rich together. This was a permanent move, said Daisy over
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147 | the telephone, but I didn’t believe it—I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I
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148 | felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the
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149 | dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
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154 | the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a
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155 | quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning
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156 | gardens—finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines
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157 | as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French
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165 | appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank
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166 | of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to
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167 | fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see
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168 | a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It
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185 | Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista,
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186 | including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent
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187 | roses, and a snub-nosed motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore.
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189 | “It belonged to Demaine, the oil man.” He turned me around again, politely and
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189 | “It belonged to Demaine, the oil man.” He turned me around again, politely and
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192 | We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely
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193 | bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows were ajar and
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195 | into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and
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196 | out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake
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197 | of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on
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198 | it as wind does on the sea.
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236 | speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. Her face was
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237 | sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate
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238 | mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her
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239 | found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise
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240 | that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were
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241 | gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
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268 | “I’m a bond man.”
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322 | Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women
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334 | “All right,” said Daisy. ‘‘What’ll we plan?” She turned to me helplessly: ‘‘What
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352 | Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering
353 | inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white
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362 | “You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy,” I confessed on my second glass of corky
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363 | but rather impressive claret. “Can’t you talk about crops or something?”
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378 | “Tom’s getting very profound,” said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful
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379 | sadness. “He reads deep books with long words in them. What was that word we———”
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394 | me again. ‘‘—And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization—oh,
395 | science and art, and all that. Do you see?”
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416 | For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing
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417 | face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow
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418 | faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a
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419 | pleasant street at dusk.
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426 | “I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a—of a rose, an absolute
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427 | rose. Doesn’t he?” She turned to Miss Baker for confirmation: “An absolute
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464 | “It couldn’t be helped!” cried Daisy with tense gayety.
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474 | The telephone rang inside, startingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at
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477 | being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at
478 | every one, and yet to avoid all eyes. I couldn’t guess what Daisy and Tom were
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479 | thinking, but I doubt if even Miss Baker, who seemed to have mastered a certain
480 | hardy scepticism, was able utterly to put this fifth guest’s shrill metallic
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484 | The horses, needless to say, were not mentioned again. Tom and Miss Baker, with
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485 | several feet of twilight between them, strolled back into the library, as if to
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486 | a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while, trying to look pleasantly
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487 | interested and a little deaf, I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting
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488 | verandas to the porch in front. In its deep gloom we sat down side by side on a
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529 | the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributary emotion
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530 | from me. I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an
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535 | end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the Saturday Evening
536 | Post—the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
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551 | “Jordan’s going to play in the tournament tomorrow,” explained Daisy, “over at
552 | Westchester.”
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565 | “I will. Good night, Mr. Carraway. See you anon.”
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583 | here this summer. I think the home influence will be very good for her.”
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628 | Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages,
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629 | where new red gaspumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate
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630 | at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned
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631 | grass roller in the yard. The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night,
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628 | Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages,
629 | where new red gaspumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate
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633 | of the earth blew the frogs full of life. The silhouette of a moving cat wavered
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634 | across the moonlight, and turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not
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635 | alone—fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor’s
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636 | mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver
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637 | pepper of the stars. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure
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642 | do for an introduction. But I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden
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643 | intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms toward the
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644 | dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he
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645 | was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except
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645 | was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except
646 | a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a
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654 | certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where
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655 | ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes
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656 | take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a
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657 | transcendent effort, of ash-gray men, who move dimly and already crumbling
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658 | through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an
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658 | through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an
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659 | invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately
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660 | the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud,
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661 | which screens their obscure operations from your sight.
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664 | it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `T.` this way?
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664 | it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `J.` this way?
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664 | it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Eckleburg` this way?
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664 | it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes
665 | of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high.
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `T.` this way?
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665 | of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high.
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `J.` this way?
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665 | of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Eckleburg` this way?
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669 | sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his
670 | eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `paintless` this way?
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673 | The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and, when the
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674 | drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can
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675 | stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour. There is always a halt
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680 | acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular cafés with her and,
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `cafés` this way?
681 | leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomsoever he knew.
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683 | up to New York with Tom on the train one afternoon, and when we stopped by the
684 | ashheaps he jumped to his feet and, taking hold of my elbow, literally forced me
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `ashheaps` this way?
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694 | hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg’s persistent stare. The only
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Eckleburg’s` this way?
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695 | building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the
696 | waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it, and contiguous to
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “wasteland”?
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699 | garage—Repairs. George B. Wilson. Cars bought and sold.—and I followed Tom
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `B.` this way?
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702 | The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `prosperous`?
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703 | dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner. It had occurred to
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704 | me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic
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705 | apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the
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706 | door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste. He was a blond,
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703 | dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner. It had occurred to
704 | me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ The word `of` is not needed here.
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706 | door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste. He was a blond,
707 | spiritless man, anæmic, and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `anæmic` this way?
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726 | footsteps on a stairs, and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `thickish` this way?
727 | out the light from the office door. She was in the middle thirties, and faintly
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728 | stout, but she carried her flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a
729 | spotted dress of dark blue crêpe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `crêpe` this way?
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728 | stout, but she carried her flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a
729 | spotted dress of dark blue crêpe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `de` this way?
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731 | nerves of her body were continually smouldering. She smiled slowly and, walking
732 | through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him
| ^~~~ Use the contraction or separate the words instead.
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756 | “Terrible place, isn’t it,” said Tom, exchanging a frown with Doctor Eckleburg.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Eckleburg` this way?
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768 | together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car. Tom deferred that much
769 | to the sensibilities of those East Eggers who might be on the train.
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Eggers` this way?
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784 | We backed up to a gray old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D.
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `D.` this way?
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806 | “That dog?” He looked at it admiringly. “That dog will cost you ten dollars.”
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
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819 | We drove over to Fifth Avenue, warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer
| ^~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
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825 | “No, you don’t,” interposed Tom quickly. “Myrtle’ll be hurt if you don’t come up
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Myrtle's`?
826 | to the apartment. Won’t you, Myrtle?”
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838 | “I’m going to have the McKees come up,” she announced as we rose in the
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `McKees` this way?
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842 | small bedroom, and a bath. The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set
843 | of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `tapestries`?
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850 | Wilson was first concerned with the dog. A reluctant elevator-boy went for a box
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
851 | full of straw and some milk, to which he added on his own initiative a tin of
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
852 | large, hard dog-biscuits— one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
853 | milk all afternoon. Meanwhile Tom brought out a bottle of whiskey from a locked
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
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860 | and I went out to buy some at the drugstore on the corner. When I came back they
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
861 | had both disappeared, so I sat down discreetly in the living-room and read a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
862 | chapter of “Simon Called Peter”—either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey
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863 | distorted things, because it didn’t make any sense to me.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 43 words long.
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877 | immoderately, repeated my question aloud, and told me she lived with a girl
| ^~~~~
878 | friend at a hotel.
| ~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “girlfriend”?
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881 | there was a white spot of lather on his cheekbone, and he was most respectful in
882 | his greeting to every one in the room. He informed me that he was in the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `everyone`?
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900 | last week to look at my feet, and when she gave me the bill you’d of thought she
901 | had my appendicitus out.”
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `appendicitis`?
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905 | “Mrs. Eberhardt. She goes around looking at people’s feet in their own homes.”
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bernhardt`?
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923 | “I should change the light,” he said after a moment. “I’d like to bring out the
924 | modelling of the features. And I’d try to get hold of all the back hair.”
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `modeling`?
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931 | “You McKees have something to drink,” he said. “Get some more ice and mineral
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `McKees` this way?
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950 | “Two studies. One of them I call ‘Montauk Point—The Gulls,’ and the other I call
| ^~~~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
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950 | “Two studies. One of them I call ‘Montauk Point—The Gulls,’ and the other I call
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean `Montague`?
951 | ‘Montauk Point—The Sea.’”
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950 | “Two studies. One of them I call ‘Montauk Point—The Gulls,’ and the other I call
951 | ‘Montauk Point—The Sea.’”
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean `Montague`?
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989 | studies of him.” His lips moved silently for a moment as he invented. “‘George
990 | B. Wilson at the Gasoline Pump,’ or something like that.”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `B.` this way?
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1029 | over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gyped out of it all in
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `gyped` this way?
1030 | two days in the private rooms. We had an awful time getting back, I can tell
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1037 | “I almost made a mistake, too,” she declared vigorously. “I almost married a
1038 | little kyke who’d been after me for years. I knew he was below me. Everybody
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `kyke` this way?
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1062 | She pointed suddenly at me, and every one looked at me accusingly. I tried to
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `everyone`?
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1065 | “The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to repeat this word?
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1077 | janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete
| ^~~~ Use the contraction or separate the words instead.
1078 | supper in themselves. I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park
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1078 | supper in themselves. I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1079 | through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1080 | some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1081 | chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed
| ~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
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1092 | eyes off him, but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at
| ^~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
1093 | the advertisement over his head. When we came into the station he was next to
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1095 | to call a policeman, but he knew I lied. I was so excited that when I got into a
1096 | taxi with him I didn’t hardly know I wasn’t getting into a subway train. All I
| ^~~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
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1122 | Daisy! Dai———”
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `Dai` this way?
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1128 | awoke from his doze and started in a daze toward the door. When he had gone half
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1129 | way he turned around and stared at the scene—his wife and Catherine scolding and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1130 | consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1131 | articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch, bleeding fluently, and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1132 | trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 59 words long.
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1152 | “Beauty and the Beast . . . Loneliness . . . Old Grocery Horse . . . Brook’n
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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1152 | “Beauty and the Beast . . . Loneliness . . . Old Grocery Horse . . . Brook’n
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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1152 | “Beauty and the Beast . . . Loneliness . . . Old Grocery Horse . . . Brook’n
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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1152 | “Beauty and the Beast . . . Loneliness . . . Old Grocery Horse . . . Brook’n
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Brook’n` this way?
1153 | Bridge . . .” Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the
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1152 | “Beauty and the Beast . . . Loneliness . . . Old Grocery Horse . . . Brook’n
1153 | Bridge . . .” Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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1160 | gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `whisperings` this way?
1161 | champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests
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1161 | champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1162 | diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1163 | beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1164 | over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 45 words long.
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1171 | Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New
| ^~~~
1172 | York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid
| ~~~~ Ensure proper capitalization of notable places that are significant regional centers, travel destinations, or have international importance.
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1172 | York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “backdoor”?
1173 | of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the
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1172 | York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid
1173 | of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `pulpless` this way?
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1179 | enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’œuvre,
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `hors` this way?
1180 | spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs
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1179 | enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’œuvre,
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `d’œuvre` this way?
1180 | spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs
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1186 | By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a
1187 | whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `pitful` this way?
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1188 | piccolos, and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in from the beach
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1189 | now and are dressing up-stairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1190 | the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1191 | colors, and hair bobbed in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1192 | Castile. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the
| ~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 54 words long.
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1191 | colors, and hair bobbed in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of
1192 | Castile. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Castile` this way?
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- Replace with: “Castillo”
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1192 | Castile. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1193 | garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1194 | innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1195 | between women who never knew each other’s names.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
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1200 | tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1201 | arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath; already there are wanderers,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1202 | confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1203 | become for a sharp, joyous moment the centre of a group, and then, excited with
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1204 | triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1205 | constantly changing light.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 66 words long.
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1200 | tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new
1201 | arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath; already there are wanderers,
| ^~~~~~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
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1202 | confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable,
1203 | become for a sharp, joyous moment the centre of a group, and then, excited with
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean `center`?
1204 | triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the
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1223 | I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform of robin’s-egg blue
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1224 | crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1225 | his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1226 | his “little party” that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
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1230 | Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1231 | wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1232 | know—though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 45 words long.
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1240 | As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1241 | people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1242 | denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1243 | direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1244 | could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 70 words long.
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1246 | I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1247 | came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1248 | little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.
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1250 | Welcome or not, I found it necessary to attach myself to some one before I
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
1251 | should begin to address cordial remarks to the passers-by.
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1287 | and address—inside of a week I got a package from Croirier’s with a new evening
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Croirier’s` this way?
1288 | gown in it.”
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1307 | A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `overall`?
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1336 | West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `gayety` this way?
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1347 | chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic
1348 | library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean `paneled`?
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1373 | Taking our scepticism for granted, he rushed to the bookcases and returned with
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `skepticism`?
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1373 | Taking our scepticism for granted, he rushed to the bookcases and returned with
1374 | Volume One of the “Stoddard Lectures.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Stoddard` this way?
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1376 | “See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `bona` this way?
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1376 | “See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `fide` this way?
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1377 | fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness!
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `fella’s` this way?
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1377 | fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness!
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Belasco` this way?
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1389 | “I was brought by a woman named Roosevelt,” he continued. “Mrs. Claud Roosevelt.
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Claud` this way?
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1402 | There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden; old men pushing young girls
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1403 | backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1404 | tortuously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners—and a great number of single
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1405 | girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1406 | burden of the banjo or the traps. By midnight the hilarity had increased. A
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 57 words long.
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1413 | trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn.
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `banjoes` this way?
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1428 | “I was in the Sixteenth until June nineteen-eighteen. I knew I’d seen you
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
1429 | somewhere before.”
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1457 | “I thought you knew, old sport. I’m afraid I’m not a very good host.”
| ^~~~~~~~~ Vocabulary enhancement: use `excellent` instead of `very good`
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1463 | prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1464 | understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1465 | assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1466 | hoped to convey. Precisely at that point it vanished—and I was looking at an
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
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1466 | hoped to convey. Precisely at that point it vanished—and I was looking at an
1467 | elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality
| ^~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
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1514 | “Ladies and gentlemen,” he cried. “At the request of Mr. Gatsby we are going to
1515 | play for you Mr. Vladmir Tostoff’s latest work, which attracted so much
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
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1515 | play for you Mr. Vladmir Tostoff’s latest work, which attracted so much
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean `Vladimir`?
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1515 | play for you Mr. Vladmir Tostoff’s latest work, which attracted so much
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Castoff's`?
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1520 | “The piece is known,” he concluded lustily, “as ‘Vladmir Tostoff’s Jazz History
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean `Vladimir`?
1521 | of the World.’”
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1520 | “The piece is known,” he concluded lustily, “as ‘Vladmir Tostoff’s Jazz History
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Castoff's`?
1521 | of the World.’”
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1523 | The nature of Mr. Tostoff’s composition eluded me, because just as it began my
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Castoff's`?
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1529 | more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased. When the “Jazz History of the
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1530 | World” was over, girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1531 | puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1532 | even into groups, knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1533 | swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder, and no
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1534 | singing quartets were formed for Gatsby’s head for one link.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 67 words long.
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1530 | World” was over, girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a
1531 | puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms,
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `puppyish` this way?
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- Replace with: “uppish”
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1531 | puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms,
1532 | even into groups, knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “someone”?
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1531 | puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms,
1532 | even into groups, knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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1574 | rent asunder by dissension. One of the men was talking with curious intensity to
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1575 | a young actress, and his wife, after attempting to laugh at the situation in a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1576 | dignified and indifferent way, broke down entirely and resorted to flank
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1577 | attacks—at intervals she appeared suddenly at his side like an angry diamond,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1578 | and hissed: “You promised!” into his ear.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 53 words long.
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1612 | “It was . . . simply amazing,” she repeated abstractedly. “But I swore I
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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1612 | “It was . . . simply amazing,” she repeated abstractedly. “But I swore I
| ^~~~~~ This sentence does not start with a capital letter
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1615 | Sigourney Howard. . . . My aunt. . . .” She was hurrying off as she talked—her
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Sigourney` this way?
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1642 | scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `shorn` this way?
1643 | wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby’s drive not two minutes before.
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1642 | scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one
1643 | wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby’s drive not two minutes before.
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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1683 | The shock that followed this declaration found voice in a sustained “Ah-h-h!” as
1684 | the door of the coupé swung slowly open. The crowd—it was now a crowd—stepped
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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1693 | “Wha’s matter?” he inquired calmly. “Did we run outa gas?”
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wha’s` this way?
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1693 | “Wha’s matter?” he inquired calmly. “Did we run outa gas?”
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `outa` this way?
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1701 | “It came off,” some one explained.
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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1710 | “Wonder’ff tell me where there’s a gas’line station?”
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wonder’ff` this way?
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- Replace with: “Wonderbra”
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1710 | “Wonder’ff tell me where there’s a gas’line station?”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `gas’line` this way?
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1740 | potatoes and coffee. I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1741 | City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1742 | mean looks in my direction, so when she went on her vacation in July I let it
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1743 | blow quietly away.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 45 words long.
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1759 | darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1760 | sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1761 | windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1762 | in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 49 words long.
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1764 | Again at eight o’clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were lined five deep
1765 | with throbbing taxicabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean `theater`?
1766 | heart. Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang, and
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1768 | unintelligible circles inside. Imagining that I, too, was hurrying toward gayety
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `gayety` this way?
1769 | and sharing their intimate excitement, I wished them well.
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- Replace with: “gamely”
- Replace with: “gamete”
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1772 | again. At first I was flattered to go places with her, because she was a golf
1773 | champion, and every one knew her name. Then it was something more. I wasn’t
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `everyone`?
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1777 | found what it was. When we were on a house-party together up in Warwick, she
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1778 | left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1779 | it—and suddenly I remembered the story about her that had eluded me that night
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1780 | at Daisy’s. At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached
| ~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 45 words long.
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1789 | thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn’t able to endure being
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1790 | at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1791 | in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1792 | smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 48 words long.
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1827 | Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `everyone`?
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1837 | cocktails and his flowers. “One time he killed a man who had found out that he
1838 | was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose,
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `Von` this way?
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1848 | From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches, and a man named
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Beckers` this way?
1849 | Bunsen, whom I knew at Yale, and Doctor Webster Civet, who was drowned last
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1850 | summer up in Maine. And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires, and a whole clan
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Hornbeams` this way?
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1850 | summer up in Maine. And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires, and a whole clan
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Voltaires` this way?
1851 | named Blackbuck, who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like
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1850 | summer up in Maine. And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires, and a whole clan
1851 | named Blackbuck, who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Blackburn`?
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1852 | goats at whosoever came near. And the Ismays and the Chrysties (or rather Hubert
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Ismays` this way?
1853 | Auerbach and Mr. Chrystie’s wife), and Edgar Beaver, whose hair, they say,
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1852 | goats at whosoever came near. And the Ismays and the Chrysties (or rather Hubert
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Chrysties` this way?
1853 | Auerbach and Mr. Chrystie’s wife), and Edgar Beaver, whose hair, they say,
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- Replace with: “Christie's”
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1852 | goats at whosoever came near. And the Ismays and the Chrysties (or rather Hubert
1853 | Auerbach and Mr. Chrystie’s wife), and Edgar Beaver, whose hair, they say,
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Auerbach` this way?
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1853 | Auerbach and Mr. Chrystie’s wife), and Edgar Beaver, whose hair, they say,
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Christi's`?
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1857 | knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden. From
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Etty` this way?
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1857 | knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden. From
1858 | farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders, and the
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Cheadles` this way?
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1858 | farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders, and the
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `O.` this way?
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1858 | farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders, and the
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `R.` this way?
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1858 | farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders, and the
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `P.` this way?
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1858 | farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders, and the
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Schraeders` this way?
1859 | Stonewall Jackson Abrams of Georgia, and the Fishguards and the Ripley Snells.
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1859 | Stonewall Jackson Abrams of Georgia, and the Fishguards and the Ripley Snells.
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Fishguards` this way?
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1859 | Stonewall Jackson Abrams of Georgia, and the Fishguards and the Ripley Snells.
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Snells` this way?
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1861 | the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett’s automobile ran over his right hand.
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Swett’s` this way?
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1862 | The Dancies came, too, and S. B. Whitebait, who was well over sixty, and Maurice
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Dancies` this way?
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1862 | The Dancies came, too, and S. B. Whitebait, who was well over sixty, and Maurice
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `S.` this way?
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1862 | The Dancies came, too, and S. B. Whitebait, who was well over sixty, and Maurice
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `B.` this way?
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1862 | The Dancies came, too, and S. B. Whitebait, who was well over sixty, and Maurice
1863 | A. Flink, and the Hammerheads, and Beluga the tobacco importer, and Beluga’s
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `A.` this way?
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1863 | A. Flink, and the Hammerheads, and Beluga the tobacco importer, and Beluga’s
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Flink` this way?
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1866 | From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1867 | Schoen and Gulick the State senator and Newton Orchid, who controlled Films Par
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1868 | Excellence, and Eckhaust and Clyde Cohen and Don S. Schwartze (the son) and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1869 | Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another. And the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 52 words long.
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1866 | From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Mulreadys` this way?
1867 | Schoen and Gulick the State senator and Newton Orchid, who controlled Films Par
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1866 | From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil
1867 | Schoen and Gulick the State senator and Newton Orchid, who controlled Films Par
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Schoen` this way?
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1866 | From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil
1867 | Schoen and Gulick the State senator and Newton Orchid, who controlled Films Par
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gulick` this way?
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1867 | Schoen and Gulick the State senator and Newton Orchid, who controlled Films Par
1868 | Excellence, and Eckhaust and Clyde Cohen and Don S. Schwartze (the son) and
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Exhaust`?
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1868 | Excellence, and Eckhaust and Clyde Cohen and Don S. Schwartze (the son) and
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `S.` this way?
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- Replace with: “Sq”
- Replace with: “St”
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1868 | Excellence, and Eckhaust and Clyde Cohen and Don S. Schwartze (the son) and
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Schwartz`?
1869 | Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another. And the
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1869 | Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another. And the
1870 | Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean `Cali's`?
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1869 | Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another. And the
1870 | Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who
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1869 | Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another. And the
1870 | Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who
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1870 | Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who
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1871 | afterward strangled his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros
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1870 | Catlips and the Bembergs and G. Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who
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1871 | afterward strangled his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros
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1871 | afterward strangled his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros
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1871 | afterward strangled his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros
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1872 | and James B. (“Rot-Gut”) Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly—they came to
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1873 | gamble, and when Ferret wandered into the garden it meant he was cleaned out and
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1874 | Associated Traction would have to fluctuate profitably next day.
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1871 | afterward strangled his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros
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1871 | afterward strangled his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros
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1872 | and James B. (“Rot-Gut”) Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly—they came to
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1871 | afterward strangled his wife. Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros
1872 | and James B. (“Rot-Gut”) Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly—they came to
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1872 | and James B. (“Rot-Gut”) Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly—they came to
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1873 | gamble, and when Ferret wandered into the garden it meant he was cleaned out and
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1872 | and James B. (“Rot-Gut”) Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly—they came to
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1873 | gamble, and when Ferret wandered into the garden it meant he was cleaned out and
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1876 | A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as
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1877 | “the boarder”—I doubt if he had any other home. Of theatrical people there were
1878 | Gus Waize and Horace O’Donavan and Lester Myer and George Duckweed and Francis
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1877 | “the boarder”—I doubt if he had any other home. Of theatrical people there were
1878 | Gus Waize and Horace O’Donavan and Lester Myer and George Duckweed and Francis
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1878 | Gus Waize and Horace O’Donavan and Lester Myer and George Duckweed and Francis
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1879 | Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers
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1879 | Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers
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1880 | and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the
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1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1882 | and Henry L. Palmetto, who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train
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1883 | in Times Square.
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1879 | Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Jacksons`?
1880 | and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the
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1879 | Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers
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1880 | and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the
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1879 | Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers
1880 | and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the
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1880 | and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Kellehers` this way?
1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1880 | and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the
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1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1880 | and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the
1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1880 | and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the
1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1882 | and Henry L. Palmetto, who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train
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1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
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1882 | and Henry L. Palmetto, who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train
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1881 | Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now,
1882 | and Henry L. Palmetto, who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train
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1885 | Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite the same
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1887 | inevitably seemed they had been there before. I have forgotten their
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1888 | names—Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela, or Gloria or Judy or June, and their
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1889 | last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner
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1890 | ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would
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1891 | confess themselves to be.
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1887 | inevitably seemed they had been there before. I have forgotten their
1888 | names—Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela, or Gloria or Judy or June, and their
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1887 | inevitably seemed they had been there before. I have forgotten their
1888 | names—Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela, or Gloria or Judy or June, and their
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Consuelo`?
1889 | last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner
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1893 | In addition to all these I can remember that Faustina O’Brien came there at
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Faustina` this way?
1894 | least once and the Baedeker girls and young Brewer, who had his nose shot off in
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1895 | the war, and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Albrucksburger` this way?
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1895 | the war, and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Haag` this way?
1896 | Fitz-Peters and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss
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1895 | the war, and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita
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1896 | Fitz-Peters and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss
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1895 | the war, and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita
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1896 | Fitz-Peters and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss
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1895 | the war, and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita
1896 | Fitz-Peters and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss
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1896 | Fitz-Peters and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss
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1896 | Fitz-Peters and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Jewett` this way?
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1911 | He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness
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1912 | of movement that is so peculiarly American—that comes, I suppose, with the
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1913 | absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our
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1914 | nervous, sporadic games. This quality was continually breaking through his
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1951 | “I’ll tell you God’s truth.” His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
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1974 | “After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe—Paris,
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1975 | Venice, Rome—collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a
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1976 | little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had
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1977 | happened to me long ago.”
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1981 | “character” leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Bois` this way?
1982 | de Boulogne.
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1981 | “character” leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois
1982 | de Boulogne.
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1981 | “character” leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois
1982 | de Boulogne.
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1988 | side of us where the infantry couldn’t advance. We stayed there two days and two
1989 | nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns, and when the infantry
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2006 | To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look. “Orderi di Danilo,” ran the
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Orderi` this way?
2007 | circular legend, “Montenegro, Nicolas Rex.”
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2006 | To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look. “Orderi di Danilo,” ran the
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `di` this way?
2007 | circular legend, “Montenegro, Nicolas Rex.”
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2006 | To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look. “Orderi di Danilo,” ran the
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2007 | circular legend, “Montenegro, Nicolas Rex.”
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2011 | “Major Jay Gatsby,” I read, “For Valour Extraordinary.”
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2014 | Trinity Quad—the man on my left is now the Earl of Doncaster.”
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2021 | Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their
2022 | crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.
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2047 | ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `undeserted` this way?
2048 | the faded-gilt nineteen-hundreds. Then the valley of ashes opened out on both
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2067 | Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant
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2068 | flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white
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2069 | heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city
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2069 | heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city
2070 | seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Greensboro`?
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2076 | Europe, and I was glad that the sight of Gatsby’s splendid car was included in
2077 | their sombre holiday. As we crossed Blackwell’s Island a limousine passed us,
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean `somber`?
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2078 | driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `negroes` this way?
2079 | girl. I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty
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2091 | “Mr. Carraway, this is my friend Mr. Wolfshiem.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
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2091 | “Mr. Carraway, this is my friend Mr. Wolfshiem.”
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2097 | “So I took one look at him,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, shaking my hand earnestly, “and
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
2098 | what do you think I did?”
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2105 | “I handed the money to Katspaugh and I sid: ‘All right, Katspaugh, don’t pay him
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Katspaugh` this way?
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2105 | “I handed the money to Katspaugh and I sid: ‘All right, Katspaugh, don’t pay him
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `sid` this way?
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2105 | “I handed the money to Katspaugh and I sid: ‘All right, Katspaugh, don’t pay him
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Katspaugh` this way?
2106 | a penny till he shuts his mouth.’ He shut it then and there.”
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2109 | whereupon Mr. Wolfshiem swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into
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2109 | whereupon Mr. Wolfshiem swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into
2110 | a somnambulatory abstraction.
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2112 | “Highballs?” asked the head waiter.
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2114 | “This is a nice restaurant here,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, looking at the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
2115 | Presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling. “But I like across the street better!”
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2117 | “Yes, highballs,” agreed Gatsby, and then to Mr. Wolfshiem: “It’s too hot over
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2120 | “Hot and small—yes,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, “but full of memories.”
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2124 | “The old Metropole.”
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2126 | “The old Metropole,” brooded Mr. Wolfshiem gloomily. “Filled with faces dead and
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Metropole` this way?
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2126 | “The old Metropole,” brooded Mr. Wolfshiem gloomily. “Filled with faces dead and
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2142 | “Sure he went.” Mr. Wolfshiem’s nose flashed at me indignantly. “He turned
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wolfshiem’s` this way?
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2150 | understand you’re looking for a business gonnegtion.”
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `connection`?
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2156 | “No?” Mr. Wolfshiem seemed disappointed.
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2160 | “I beg your pardon,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, “I had a wrong man.”
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2162 | A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
2163 | atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy. His eyes,
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2162 | A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental
2163 | atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy. His eyes,
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Metropole` this way?
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2181 | me with Mr. Wolfshiem at the table.
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2183 | “He has to telephone,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, following him with his eyes. “Fine
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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2188 | “He’s an Oggsford man.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Oggsford` this way?
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- Replace with: “Osborn”
- Replace with: “Osgood”
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2192 | “He went to Oggsford College in England. You know Oggsford College?”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Oggsford` this way?
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- Replace with: “Osborn”
- Replace with: “Osgood”
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2192 | “He went to Oggsford College in England. You know Oggsford College?”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Oggsford` this way?
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- Replace with: “Oxford”
- Replace with: “Osborn”
- Replace with: “Osgood”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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2218 | Mr. Wolfshiem drank his coffee with a jerk and got to his feet.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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Lint: WordChoice (127 priority)
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2220 | “I have enjoyed my lunch,” he said, “and I’m going to run off from you two young
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
2221 | men before I outstay my welcome.”
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- Replace with: “you're a”
- Replace with: “you're an”
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2223 | “Don’t hurry, Meyer,” said Gatsby, without enthusiasm. Mr. Wolfshiem raised his
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
2224 | hand in a sort of benediction.
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- Replace with: “Bolshie”
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2243 | “Meyer Wolfshiem? No, he’s a gambler.” Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly:
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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- Replace with: “Bolshie”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
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2265 | “Come along with me for a minute,” I said; “I’ve got to say hello to some one.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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- Replace with: “someone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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2269 | “Where’ve you been?” he demanded eagerly. “Daisy’s furious because you haven’t
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Where’ve` this way?
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- Replace with: “Where's”
- Replace with: “Wherever”
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2277 | “How’ve you been, anyhow?” demanded Tom of me. “How’d you happen to come up this
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `How’ve` this way?
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- Replace with: “Howe”
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2291 | with rubber nobs on the soles that bit into the soft ground. I had on a new
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2292 | plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind, and whenever this happened the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2293 | red, white, and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2294 | said tut-tut-tut-tut, in a disapproving way.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
Lint: Repetition (63 priority)
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2314 | girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have
| ^~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
2315 | remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby, and I didn’t lay
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- Replace with: “I”
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2319 | That was nineteen-seventeen. By the next year I had a few beaux myself, and I
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `beaux` this way?
2320 | began to play in tournaments, so I didn’t see Daisy very often. She went with a
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- Replace with: “beaus”
- Replace with: “beaut”
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2329 | By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever. She had a début after the
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `début` this way?
2330 | armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans.
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- Replace with: “debit”
- Replace with: “debt”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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2332 | than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2333 | private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Muhlbach Hotel, and the day before
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2334 | the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2335 | thousand dollars.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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2333 | private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Muhlbach Hotel, and the day before
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Muhlbach` this way?
2334 | the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty
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- Replace with: “Pullback”
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2339 | dress—and as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand and a
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Sauterne` this way?
2340 | letter in the other.
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- Replace with: “Sterne”
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2342 | “’Gratulate me,” she muttered. “Never had a drink before, but oh how I do enjoy
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Granulate`?
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- Replace with: “Granulate”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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2349 | “Here, deares’.” She groped around in a wastebasket she had with her on the bed
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `deares` this way?
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- Replace with: “deaves”
- Replace with: “dares”
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2351 | whoever they belong to. Tell ’em all Daisy’s change’ her mine. Say: ‘Daisy’s
| ^~~~~~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
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- Replace with: “mine”
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2351 | whoever they belong to. Tell ’em all Daisy’s change’ her mine. Say: ‘Daisy’s
2352 | change’ her mine!’”
| ^~~~~~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
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- Replace with: “mine”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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2360 | But she didn’t say another word. We gave her spirits of ammonia and put ice on
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2361 | her forehead and hooked her back into her dress, and half an hour later, when we
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2362 | walked out of the room, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2363 | over. Next day at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a
| ~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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2373 | week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Ventura` this way?
2374 | night, and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into
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- Replace with: “Century”
- Replace with: “Denture”
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Message: |
2379 | saw them one spring in Cannes, and later in Deauville, and then they came back
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Deauville` this way?
2380 | to Chicago to settle down. Daisy was popular in Chicago, as you know. They moved
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- Replace with: “Melville”
- Replace with: “Neville”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2395 | When Jordan Baker had finished telling all this we had left the Plaza for half
2396 | an hour and were driving in a victoria through Central Park. The sun had gone
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `victoria` this way?
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- Replace with: “Victoria”
- Replace with: “victor”
- Replace with: “victor's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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2401 | > “I’m the Sheik of Araby. Your love belongs to me. At night when you’re asleep
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Sheik` this way?
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- Replace with: “Sabik”
- Replace with: “Seiko”
Lint: WordChoice (31 priority)
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2447 | “When I said you were a particular friend of Tom’s, he started to abandon the
| ^~~~ Use the contraction or separate the words instead.
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- Replace with: “we're”
- Replace with: “we are”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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2455 | hard, limited person, who dealt in universal scepticism, and who leaned back
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `skepticism`?
2456 | jauntily just within the circle of my arm. A phrase began to beat in my ears
Suggest:
- Replace with: “skepticism”
Lint: Miscellaneous (55 priority)
Message: |
2462 | “Does she want to see Gatsby?”
| ^~~~ Did you mean `wants`?
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- Replace with: “wants”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2467 | We passed a barrier of dark trees, and then the façade of Fifty-ninth Street, a
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `façade` this way?
2468 | block of delicate pale light, beamed down into the park. Unlike Gatsby and Tom
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- Replace with: “fade”
- Replace with: “facades”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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2492 | some of the rooms. Let’s go to Coney Island, old sport. In my car.”
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Coney` this way?
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- Replace with: “Cone”
- Replace with: “Conley”
- Replace with: “Corey”
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2555 | “You wouldn’t have to do any business with Wolfshiem.” Evidently he thought that
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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- Replace with: “Bolshie”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2555 | “You wouldn’t have to do any business with Wolfshiem.” Evidently he thought that
2556 | I was shying away from the “gonnegtion” mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `connection`?
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- Replace with: “connection”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2561 | sleep as I entered my front door. So I don’t know whether or not Gatsby went to
2562 | Coney Island, or for how many hours he “glanced into rooms” while his house
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Coney` this way?
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- Replace with: “Cone”
- Replace with: “Conley”
- Replace with: “Corey”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
2594 | “Looks very good,” he remarked vaguely. “One of the papers said they thought the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Vocabulary enhancement: use `excellent` instead of `very good`
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- Replace with: “excellent”
Lint: Capitalization (31 priority)
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2603 | “Of course, of course! They’re fine!” and he added hollowly, “. . . old sport.”
| ^~~ This sentence does not start with a capital letter
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- Replace with: “Old”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
2606 | thin drops swam like dew. Gatsby looked with vacant eyes through a copy of
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2607 | Clay’s “Economics,” starting at the Finnish tread that shook the kitchen floor,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2608 | and peering toward the bleared windows from time to time as if a series of
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2609 | invisible but alarming happenings were taking place outside. Finally he got up
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2607 | Clay’s “Economics,” starting at the Finnish tread that shook the kitchen floor,
2608 | and peering toward the bleared windows from time to time as if a series of
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `bleared` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “blared”
- Replace with: “bleated”
- Replace with: “beard”
Lint: Style (31 priority)
Message: |
2629 | The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to
2630 | follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone, before any
| ^~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
Suggest:
- Insert “,”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2638 | “That’s the secret of Castle Rackrent. Tell your chauffeur to go far away and
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Backrest`?
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- Replace with: “Backrest”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2641 | “Come back in an hour, Ferdie.” Then in a grave murmur: “His name is Ferdie.”
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Ferdie` this way?
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- Replace with: “Fermi”
- Replace with: “Ferris”
- Replace with: “Freddie”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2641 | “Come back in an hour, Ferdie.” Then in a grave murmur: “His name is Ferdie.”
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Ferdie` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Fermi”
- Replace with: “Ferris”
- Replace with: “Freddie”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
2673 | a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom. His head leaned back so
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2674 | far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock, and from
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2675 | this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2676 | frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
2737 | I walked out the back way—just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2738 | circuit of the house half an hour before—and ran for a huge black knotted tree,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2739 | whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain. Once more it was pouring,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
2737 | I walked out the back way—just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “backway”?
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- Replace with: “backway”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
2743 | steeple, for half an hour. A brewer had built it early in the “period” craze, a
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2744 | decade before, and there was a story that he’d agreed to pay five years’ taxes
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2745 | on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2746 | with straw. Perhaps their refusal took the heart out of his plan to Found a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: Style (31 priority)
Message: |
2756 | it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now
| ^~~~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
2757 | and then with gusts of emotion. But in the new silence I felt that silence had
Suggest:
- Insert “,”
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
2775 | twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “weatherman”?
2776 | ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy. “What do you
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- Replace with: “weatherman”
Lint: Style (31 priority)
Message: |
2823 | “I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do
| ^~~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
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- Insert “,”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2826 | Instead of taking the short cut along the Sound we went down to the road and
2827 | entered by the big postern. With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `postern` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “poster”
- Replace with: “posters”
- Replace with: “pastern”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
2827 | entered by the big postern. With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2828 | that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2829 | sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2830 | the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate. It was strange to reach the marble
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
2840 | We went up-stairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2841 | vivid with new flowers, through dressing-rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2842 | sunken baths—intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2843 | doing liver exercises on the floor. It was Mr. Klipspringer, the ‘‘boarder.” I
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 45 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2842 | sunken baths—intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `disheveled`?
2843 | doing liver exercises on the floor. It was Mr. Klipspringer, the ‘‘boarder.” I
Suggest:
- Replace with: “disheveled”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2843 | doing liver exercises on the floor. It was Mr. Klipspringer, the ‘‘boarder.” I
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Klipspringer` this way?
Lint: Style (31 priority)
Message: |
2844 | had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning. Finally we came to
2845 | Gatsby’s own apartment, a bedroom and a bath, and an Adam’s study, where we sat
| ^~~~~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
Suggest:
- Insert “,”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2866 | intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `overwound` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “overground”
- Replace with: “overfond”
- Replace with: “overfund”
Lint: Style (31 priority)
Message: |
2872 | “I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of
2873 | things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.”
| ^~~~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
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- Insert “,”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
2875 | He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2876 | shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2877 | they fell and covered the table in many colored disarray. While we admired he
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2878 | brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and
2879 | scrolls and plaids in coral and applegreen and lavender and faint orange, with
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `applegreen` this way?
2880 | monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Appleseed”
- Replace with: “allergen”
- Replace with: “appeared”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
2887 | After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming-pool, and the
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2888 | hydroplane and the midsummer flowers—but outside Gatsby’s window it began to
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2889 | rain again, so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 43 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2940 | “I know what we'll do,” said Gatsby, “we'll have Klipspringer play the piano.”
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Klipspringer` this way?
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2949 | “I was asleep,” cried Mr. Klipspringer, in a spasm of embarrassment. “That is,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Klipspringer` this way?
Lint: Formatting (63 priority)
Message: |
2950 | I’d been asleep. Then I got up . . .”
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
Suggest:
- Remove error
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2952 | “Klipspringer plays the piano,” said Gatsby, cutting him off. “Don’t you, Ewing,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Klipspringer` this way?
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2955 | “I don’t play well. I don’t—I hardly play at all. I’m all out of prac———”
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `prac` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “pray”
- Replace with: “prat”
- Replace with: “pram”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2965 | When Klipspringer had played “The Love Nest” he turned around on the bench and
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Klipspringer` this way?
Lint: WordChoice (127 priority)
Message: |
2968 | “I’m all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn’t play. I’m all out of
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “your”
- Replace with: “you're a”
- Replace with: “you're an”
Lint: Repetition (63 priority)
Message: |
2968 | “I’m all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn’t play. I’m all out of
| ^~~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “you”
- Replace with: “I”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
2968 | “I’m all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn’t play. I’m all out of
2969 | prac—”
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `prac` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “pray”
- Replace with: “prat”
- Replace with: “pram”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
3020 | short of being news. Contemporary legends such as the “underground pipe-line to
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3021 | Canada” attached themselves to him, and there was one persistent story that he
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3022 | didn’t live in a house at all, but in a boat that looked like a house and was
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3023 | moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore. Just why these inventions were
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 49 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
3023 | moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore. Just why these inventions were
3024 | a source of satisfaction to James Gatz of North Dakota, isn’t easy to say.
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
3026 | James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
3029 | on Lake Superior. It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3030 | afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3031 | Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat, pulled out to the Tuolomee, and informed Cody
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3032 | that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 56 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
3029 | on Lake Superior. It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
3031 | Jay Gatsby who borrowed a rowboat, pulled out to the Tuolomee, and informed Cody
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Tuolomee` this way?
3032 | that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Togolese”
- Replace with: “Tolkien”
- Replace with: “Toltec”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
3048 | were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in
3049 | his overwhelming self-absorbtion he took for granted.
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `absorbtion` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “absorption”
- Replace with: “abortion”
- Replace with: “adsorption”
Lint: WordChoice (31 priority)
Message: |
3057 | an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of
| ^~~~ Use the contraction or separate the words instead.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “we're”
- Replace with: “we are”
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
3073 | tried to separate him from his money. The none too savory ramifications by which
3074 | Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “newspaperwoman”?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “newspaperwoman”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
3074 | Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `de` this way?
3075 | sent him to sea in a yacht, were common property of the turgid journalism
Suggest:
- Replace with: “d”
- Replace with: “db”
- Replace with: “dc”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
3074 | Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Maintenon` this way?
3075 | sent him to sea in a yacht, were common property of the turgid journalism
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Maintop”
- Replace with: “Maine's”
- Replace with: “Mainer's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
3076 | of 1902. He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years
3077 | when he turned up as James Gatz’s destiny in Little Girl Bay.
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz’s` this way?
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3079 | To young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, that yacht
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
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- Replace with: “Gate”
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3085 | and a yachting cap. And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Tuolomee` this way?
3086 | Barbary Coast Gatsby left too.
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3088 | He was employed in a vague personal capacity—while he remained with Cody he was
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3089 | in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3090 | knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about, and he provided for
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3091 | such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby. The arrangement
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 53 words long.
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3089 | in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `jailor` this way?
3090 | knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about, and he provided for
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- Replace with: “sailor”
- Replace with: “tailor”
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3096 | I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby’s bedroom, a gray, florid man with a
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3097 | hard, empty face—the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3098 | brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3099 | and saloon. It was indirectly due to Cody that Gatsby drank so little. Sometimes
| ~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
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3106 | left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby
3107 | had filled out to the substantiality of a man.
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `substantially`?
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3116 | It was a halt, too, in my association with his affairs. For several weeks I
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3117 | didn’t see him or hear his voice on the phone—mostly I was in New York, trotting
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3118 | around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt—but
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3119 | finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon. I hadn’t been there two
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
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3123 | They were a party of three on horseback—Tom and a man named Sloane and a pretty
| ^~~~ Use the contraction or separate the words instead.
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3135 | uneasy anyhow until he had given them something, realizing in a vague way that
| ^~~~~
3136 | that was all they came for. Mr. Sloane wanted nothing. A lemonade? No, thanks. A
| ~~~~ Did you mean to repeat this word?
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3135 | uneasy anyhow until he had given them something, realizing in a vague way that
| ^~~~~
3136 | that was all they came for. Mr. Sloane wanted nothing. A lemonade? No, thanks. A
| ~~~~ “that that” sometimes means “that which”, which is clearer.
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3141 | “Very good roads around here.”
| ^~~~~~~~~ Vocabulary enhancement: use `excellent` instead of `very good`
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3180 | “Be ver’ nice,” said Mr. Sloane, without gratitude. “Well—think ought to be
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `ver` this way?
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- Replace with: “veer”
- Replace with: “verb”
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3235 | in my memory from Gatsby’s other parties that summer. There were the same
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3236 | people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3237 | the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3238 | air, a pervading harshness that hadn’t been there before. Or perhaps I had
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
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3235 | in my memory from Gatsby’s other parties that summer. There were the same
| ^~~~ Use the contraction or separate the words instead.
3236 | people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne,
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- Replace with: “we are”
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3238 | air, a pervading harshness that hadn’t been there before. Or perhaps I had
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3239 | merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3240 | with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3241 | had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3242 | Daisy’s eyes. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 51 words long.
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3254 | “I’m looking around. I’m having a marvellous—”
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `marvelous`?
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3274 | “Mrs. Buchanan . . . and Mr. Buchanan—” After an instant’s hesitation he added:
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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- Remove error
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3274 | “Mrs. Buchanan . . . and Mr. Buchanan—” After an instant’s hesitation he added:
| ^~~ This sentence does not start with a capital letter
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3316 | “Wha’?”
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `Wha` this way?
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- Replace with: “Wham”
- Replace with: “Aha”
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3319 | at the local club to-morrow, spoke in Miss Baedeker’s defence:
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean `defense`?
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3337 | “Speak for yourself!” cried Miss Baedeker violently. “Your hand shakes. I
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “handshakes”?
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3349 | But the rest offended her—and inarguably, because it wasn’t a gesture but an
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `inarguably` this way?
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- Replace with: “unarguably”
- Replace with: “arguably”
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3350 | emotion. She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented “place” that Broadway
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3351 | had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3352 | chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3353 | inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 48 words long.
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3389 | Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rythmic whisper, bringing out a
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `rythmic` this way?
3390 | meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again.
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- Replace with: “rhythmic”
- Replace with: “mythic”
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3414 | dim, incalculable hours? Perhaps some unbelievable guest would arrive, a person
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3415 | infinitely rare and to be marvelled at, some authentically radiant young girl
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3416 | who with one fresh glance at Gatsby, one moment of magical encounter, would blot
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3417 | out those five years of unwavering devotion.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
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3414 | dim, incalculable hours? Perhaps some unbelievable guest would arrive, a person
3415 | infinitely rare and to be marvelled at, some authentically radiant young girl
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `marveled`?
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- Replace with: “marveled”
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3419 | I stayed late that night, Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free, and I
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3420 | lingered in the garden until the inevitable swimming party had run up, chilled
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3421 | and exalted, from the black beach, until the lights were extinguished in the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3422 | guest-rooms overhead. When he came down the steps at last the tanned skin was
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 45 words long.
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3474 | Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3475 | formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3476 | it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3477 | down the incomparable milk of wonder.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 55 words long.
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3479 | His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “heartbeat”?
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3490 | them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost
3491 | remembered was uncommunicable forever.
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `uncommunicable` this way?
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- Replace with: “communicable”
- Replace with: “noncommunicable”
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3496 | house failed to go on one Saturday night—and, as obscurely as it had begun, his
3497 | career as Trimalchio was over. Only gradually did I become aware that the
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Trimalchio` this way?
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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3507 | “I hadn’t seen him around, and I was rather worried. Tell him Mr. Carraway came
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
3508 | over.”
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- Replace with: “Faraway”
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3512 | “Carraway.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
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- Replace with: “Faraway”
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3514 | “Carraway. All right, I'll tell him.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
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- Replace with: “Faraway”
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3518 | My Finn informed me that Gatsby had dismissed every servant in his house a week
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3519 | ago and replaced them with half a dozen others, who never went into West Egg
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3520 | Village to be bribed by the tradesmen, but ordered moderate supplies over the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3521 | telephone. The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and
| ~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
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3539 | “They’re some people Wolfshiem wanted to do something for. They’re all brothers
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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- Replace with: “Bolshie”
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3553 | of the National Biscuit Company broke the simmering hush at noon. The straw
| ^~~~~~~~~~
3554 | seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3555 | perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3556 | newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3557 | desolate cry. Her pocket-book slapped to the floor.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
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3561 | I picked it up with a weary bend and handed it back to her, holding it at arm’s
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3562 | length and by the extreme tip of the corners to indicate that I had no designs
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3563 | upon it—but every one near by, including the woman, suspected me just the same.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 49 words long.
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3562 | length and by the extreme tip of the corners to indicate that I had no designs
3563 | upon it—but every one near by, including the woman, suspected me just the same.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `everyone`?
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- Replace with: “everyone”
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3566 | Hot! . . . Hot! . . . Is it hot enough for you? Is it hot? Is it . . .?”
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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- Remove error
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3568 | My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand. That any
| ^~~~
3569 | one should care in this heat whose flushed lips he kissed, whose head made damp
| ~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `anyone`?
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3572 | . . . Through the hall of the Buchanans’ house blew a faint wind, carrying the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Buchanans` this way?
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- Replace with: “Buchanan”
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3578 | What he really said was: “Yes . . . Yes . . . I’ll see.”
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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3578 | What he really said was: “Yes . . . Yes . . . I’ll see.”
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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3599 | Gatsby stood in the centre of the crimson carpet and gazed around with
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean `center`?
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3606 | then, I won’t sell you the car at all. . . . I’m under no obligations to you at
3607 | all . . . and as for your bothering me about it at lunch time, I won’t stand
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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3607 | all . . . and as for your bothering me about it at lunch time, I won’t stand
| ^~~ This sentence does not start with a capital letter
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3612 | “No, he’s not,” I assured her. “It’s a bona-fide deal. I happen to know about
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `bona` this way?
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- Replace with: “boa”
- Replace with: “bond”
- Replace with: “bone”
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3612 | “No, he’s not,” I assured her. “It’s a bona-fide deal. I happen to know about
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `fide` this way?
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- Replace with: “fade”
- Replace with: “fife”
- Replace with: “file”
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3640 | “Bles-sed pre-cious,” she crooned, holding out her arms. “Come to your own
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Bles` this way?
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- Replace with: “BB's”
- Replace with: “BC's”
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3640 | “Bles-sed pre-cious,” she crooned, holding out her arms. “Come to your own
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `sed` this way?
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- Replace with: “sad”
- Replace with: “sea”
- Replace with: “sec”
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3640 | “Bles-sed pre-cious,” she crooned, holding out her arms. “Come to your own
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `cious` this way?
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- Replace with: “chorus”
- Replace with: “circus”
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3646 | “The bles-sed pre-cious! Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair? Stand
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `bles` this way?
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- Replace with: “bales”
- Replace with: “bees”
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3646 | “The bles-sed pre-cious! Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair? Stand
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `sed` this way?
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- Replace with: “sea”
- Replace with: “sec”
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3646 | “The bles-sed pre-cious! Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair? Stand
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `cious` this way?
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- Replace with: “chorus”
- Replace with: “circus”
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3646 | “The bles-sed pre-cious! Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair? Stand
3647 | up now, and say—How-de-do.”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `de` this way?
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- Replace with: “d”
- Replace with: “db”
- Replace with: “dc”
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3672 | “Come, Pammy.”
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Pammy` this way?
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- Replace with: “Mammy”
- Replace with: “Sammy”
- Replace with: “Tammy”
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3677 | hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin
3678 | rickeys that clicked full of ice.
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `rickeys` this way?
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- Replace with: “rickets”
- Replace with: “Rickey's”
- Replace with: “rice's”
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3709 | We had luncheon in the dining-room, darkened too against the heat, and drank
3710 | down nervous gayety with the cold ale.
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `gayety` this way?
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- Replace with: “gamely”
- Replace with: “gamete”
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3712 | “What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean `That'll`?
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- Replace with: “That'll”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
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3736 | mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he
3737 | had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago.
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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- Replace with: “someone”
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3754 | “Are we just going to go?” she objected. “Like this? Aren’t we going to let any
| ^~~~
3755 | one smoke a cigarette first?”
| ~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `anyone`?
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- Replace with: “anyone”
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3809 | “Well, you take my coupé and let me drive your car to town.”
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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- Replace with: “coup”
- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
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3828 | “You take Nick and Jordan. We’ll follow you in the coupé.”
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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- Replace with: “coup”
- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
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3841 | “You think I’m pretty dumb, don’t you?” he suggested. “Perhaps I am, but I have
3842 | a—almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do. Maybe you don’t
| ^ Incorrect indefinite article.
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3874 | while in silence. Then as Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s faded eyes came into sight
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `T.` this way?
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- Replace with: “To”
- Replace with: “T”
- Replace with: “Tb”
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3874 | while in silence. Then as Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s faded eyes came into sight
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `J.` this way?
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- Replace with: “Jr”
- Replace with: “J”
- Replace with: “Jg”
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3874 | while in silence. Then as Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s faded eyes came into sight
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Eckleburg’s` this way?
3875 | down the road, I remembered Gatsby’s caution about gasoline.
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- Replace with: “Vicksburg's”
- Replace with: “Iceberg's”
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3923 | The coupé flashed by us with a flurry of dust and the flash of a waving hand.
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
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3937 | world, and the shock had made him physically sick. I stared at him and then at
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3938 | Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before—and it occurred
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3939 | to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3940 | profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Wilson was so sick
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 46 words long.
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3948 | behind. Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `ashheaps` this way?
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- Replace with: “airheads”
- Replace with: “ashcans”
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3948 | behind. Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `T.` this way?
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- Replace with: “To”
- Replace with: “T”
- Replace with: “Tb”
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3948 | behind. Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `J.` this way?
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- Replace with: “Jr”
- Replace with: “J”
- Replace with: “Jg”
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3948 | behind. Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Eckleburg` this way?
3949 | vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with
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- Replace with: “Excalibur”
- Replace with: “Vicksburg”
- Replace with: “Iceberg”
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3955 | into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. Her expression was
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3956 | curiously familiar—it was an expression I had often seen on women’s faces, but
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3957 | on Myrtle Wilson’s face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3958 | that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3959 | Baker, whom she took to be his wife.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 52 words long.
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3963 | ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control. Instinct
| ^~~~~~~~~
3964 | made him step on the accelerator with the double purpose of overtaking Daisy and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3965 | leaving Wilson behind, and we sped along toward Astoria at fifty miles an hour,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3966 | until, among the spidery girders of the elevated, we came in sight of the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3967 | easy-going blue coupé.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 47 words long.
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3966 | until, among the spidery girders of the elevated, we came in sight of the
3967 | easy-going blue coupé.
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
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3974 | The word “sensuous” had the effect of further disquieting Tom, but before he
3975 | could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop, and Daisy signalled us to draw
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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- Replace with: “coups”
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Message: |
3975 | could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop, and Daisy signalled us to draw
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `signaled`?
3976 | up alongside.
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3997 | The prolonged and tumultuous argument that ended by herding us into that room
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3998 | eludes me, though I have a sharp physical memory that, in the course of it, my
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3999 | underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs and intermittent beads
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4000 | of sweat raced cool across my back. The notion originated with Daisy’s
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 49 words long.
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4004 | thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny . . .
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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4010 | “It’s a swell suite,” whispered Jordan respectfully, and every one laughed.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `everyone`?
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Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4016 | “Well, we’d better telephone for an axe———”
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `axe` this way?
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- Replace with: “aye”
- Replace with: “ace”
- Replace with: “age”
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4054 | “Biloxi,” he answered shortly.
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Biro's”
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4056 | “A man named Biloxi. ‘Blocks’ Biloxi, and he made boxes—that’s a fact—and he was
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Bilbo's”
- Replace with: “Biro's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4056 | “A man named Biloxi. ‘Blocks’ Biloxi, and he made boxes—that’s a fact—and he was
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Bilbo's”
- Replace with: “Biro's”
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4056 | “A man named Biloxi. ‘Blocks’ Biloxi, and he made boxes—that’s a fact—and he was
4057 | from Biloxi, Tennessee.”
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Biro's”
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4064 | “I used to know a Bill Biloxi from Memphis,” I remarked.
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Bilbo's”
- Replace with: “Biro's”
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4073 | “We're getting old,” said Daisy. “lf we were young we’d rise and dance.”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `lf` this way?
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- Replace with: “l”
- Replace with: “la”
- Replace with: “lb”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4075 | “Remember Biloxi,” Jordan warned her. ‘‘Where’d you know him, Tom?”
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Biko's”
- Replace with: “Bilbo's”
- Replace with: “Biro's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4077 | “Biloxi?” He concentrated with an effort. “I didn’t know him. He was a friend of
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Biko's”
- Replace with: “Bilbo's”
- Replace with: “Biro's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4083 | “Well, he said he knew you. He said he was raised in Louisville. Asa Bird
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `Asa` this way?
4084 | brought him around at the last minute and asked if we had room for him.”
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- Replace with: “Ass”
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- Replace with: “Ala”
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4093 | “Biloxi?”
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Biko's”
- Replace with: “Bilbo's”
- Replace with: “Biro's”
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4109 | “You must have gone there about the time Biloxi went to New Haven.”
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Biloxi` this way?
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- Replace with: “Biko's”
- Replace with: “Bilbo's”
- Replace with: “Biro's”
Lint: WordChoice (127 priority)
Message: |
4115 | “I told you I went there,” said Gatsby.
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
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- Replace with: “you're a”
- Replace with: “you're an”
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4115 | “I told you I went there,” said Gatsby.
| ^~~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
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- Replace with: “I”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
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4182 | was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in
4183 | her heart she never loved any one except me!”
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `anyone`?
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- Replace with: “anyone”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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4185 | At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4186 | competitive firmness that we remain—as though neither of them had anything to
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4187 | conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: WordChoice (127 priority)
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4192 | “I told you what’s been going on,” said Gatsby. “Going on for five years—and you
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
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- Replace with: “your”
- Replace with: “you're a”
- Replace with: “you're an”
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4209 | a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door. But all the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “backdoor”?
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4241 | “Not at Kapiolani?” demanded Tom suddenly.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Kapiolani` this way?
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- Replace with: “Kaposi”
- Replace with: “Capillary”
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4265 | Why—there’re things between Daisy and me that you’ll never know, things that
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `there’re` this way?
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- Replace with: “there'd”
- Replace with: “there'll”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4300 | “Who are you, anyhow?” broke out Tom. “You’re one of that bunch that hangs
4301 | around with Meyer Wolfshiem—that much I happen to know. I’ve made a little
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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- Replace with: “Bolshie”
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4307 | “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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- Replace with: “Bolshie”
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4321 | have you up on the betting laws too, but Wolfshiem scared him into shutting his
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
4322 | mouth.”
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Message: |
4337 | defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with every
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4338 | word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4339 | only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4340 | what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4341 | lost voice across the room.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 47 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4340 | what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `despairingly`?
4341 | lost voice across the room.
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- Replace with: “despairingly”
Lint: Repetition (127 priority)
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4347 | Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever courage she had had,
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to repeat this word?
4348 | were definitely gone.
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- Replace with: “had”
Lint: WordChoice (127 priority)
Message: |
4350 | “You two start on home, Daisy,” said Tom. “In Mr. Gatsby’s car.”
| ^~~ The possessive version of this word is more common in this context.
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- Replace with: “Your”
- Replace with: “You're a”
- Replace with: “You're an”
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4373 | “No . . . I just remembered that to-day’s my birthday.”
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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- Remove error
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4377 | It was seven o’clock when we got into the coupé with him and started for Long
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
4378 | Island. Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as
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- Replace with: “coup”
- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
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4391 | The young Greek, Michaelis, who ran the coffee joint beside the ashheaps was the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4391 | The young Greek, Michaelis, who ran the coffee joint beside the ashheaps was the
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `ashheaps` this way?
4392 | principal witness at the inquest. He had slept through the heat until after
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- Replace with: “asthma's”
- Replace with: “airheads”
- Replace with: “ashcans”
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4394 | office—really sick, pale as his own pale hair and shaking all over. Michaelis
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
4395 | advised him to go to bed, but Wilson refused, saying that he’d miss a lot of
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- Replace with: “Michael”
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4402 | Michaelis was astonished; they had been neighbors for four years, and Wilson had
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
4405 | stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road. When any one spoke
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `anyone`?
4406 | to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way. He was his wife’s
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- Replace with: “anyone”
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4409 | So naturally Michaelis tried to find out what had happened, but Wilson wouldn’t
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4412 | latter was getting uneasy, some workmen came past the door bound for his
4413 | restaurant, and Michaelis took the opportunity to get away, intending to come
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Style (31 priority)
Message: |
4416 | he heard Mrs. Wilson’s voice, loud and scolding, down-stairs in the garage.
| ^~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
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- Insert “,”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4426 | the next bend. Mavromichaelis wasn’t even sure of its color—he told the first
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Carmichael's`?
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- Replace with: “Carmichael's”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
4427 | policeman that it was light green. The other car, the one going toward New York,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4428 | came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and it’s driver hurried back to where
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4429 | Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4430 | her thick dark blood with the dust.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4432 | Michaelis and this man reached her first, but when they had torn open her
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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4432 | Michaelis and this man reached her first, but when they had torn open her
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4433 | shirtwaist, still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4434 | swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4435 | beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped a little at the corners, as though
| ~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
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4442 | “Wreck!” said Tom. “That’s good. Wilson’ll have a little business at last.”
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Wilson`?
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- Replace with: “Wilson”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4451 | garage, a sound which as we got out of the coupé and walked toward the door
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
4452 | resolved itself into the words “Oh, my God!” uttered over and over in a gasping
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- Replace with: “coup”
- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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4466 | Myrtle Wilson’s body, wrapped in a blanket, and then in another blanket, as
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4467 | though she suffered from a chill in the hot night, lay on a work-table by the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4468 | wall, and Tom, with his back to us, was bending over it, motionless. Next to him
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 43 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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4470 | a little book. At first I couldn’t find the source of the high, groaning words
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4471 | that echoed clamorously through the bare garage—then I saw Wilson standing on
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4472 | the raised threshold of his office, swaying back and forth and holding to the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4473 | doorposts with both hands. Some man was talking to him in a low voice and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 43 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4470 | a little book. At first I couldn’t find the source of the high, groaning words
4471 | that echoed clamorously through the bare garage—then I saw Wilson standing on
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `clamorously` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “glamorously”
- Replace with: “clamorous”
- Replace with: “clangorously”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4479 | “Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od!”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `od` this way?
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- Replace with: “odd”
- Replace with: “ode”
- Replace with: “of”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4479 | “Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od!”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `od` this way?
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- Replace with: “odd”
- Replace with: “ode”
- Replace with: “of”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4479 | “Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od!”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `od` this way?
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- Replace with: “odd”
- Replace with: “ode”
- Replace with: “of”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4479 | “Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od!”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `od` this way?
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- Replace with: “odd”
- Replace with: “ode”
- Replace with: “of”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4484 | “M-a-v—” the policeman was saying, “—o———”
| ^ Did you mean to spell `o` this way?
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- Replace with: “ob”
- Replace with: “of”
- Replace with: “oh”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4486 | “No, r—” corrected the man, “M-a-v-r-o———”
| ^ Did you mean to spell `o` this way?
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- Replace with: “ob”
- Replace with: “of”
- Replace with: “oh”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4490 | “r—” said the policeman, “o———”
| ^ Did you mean to spell `o` this way?
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- Replace with: “ob”
- Replace with: “of”
- Replace with: “oh”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4499 | “Auto hit her. Ins’antly killed.”
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Instantly`?
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- Replace with: “Instantly”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4503 | “She ran out ina road. Son-of-a-bitch didn’t even stopus car.”
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `ina` this way?
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- Replace with: “int”
- Replace with: “in”
- Replace with: “inc”
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Message: |
4503 | “She ran out ina road. Son-of-a-bitch didn’t even stopus car.”
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `stopus` this way?
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- Replace with: “stop's”
- Replace with: “stops”
- Replace with: “stomp's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4505 | “There was two cars,” said Michaelis, “one comin’, one goin’, see?”
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4505 | “There was two cars,” said Michaelis, “one comin’, one goin’, see?”
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `comin` this way?
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- Replace with: “coin”
- Replace with: “comic”
- Replace with: “coming”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4505 | “There was two cars,” said Michaelis, “one comin’, one goin’, see?”
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `goin` this way?
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- Replace with: “gain”
- Replace with: “gin”
- Replace with: “going”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4509 | “One goin’ each way. Well, she”—his hand rose toward the blankets but stopped
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `goin` this way?
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- Replace with: “gain”
- Replace with: “gin”
- Replace with: “going”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
4510 | half way and fell to his side—“she ran out there an’ the one comin’ from N’York
| ^~ Incorrect indefinite article.
4511 | knock right into her, goin’ thirty or forty miles an hour.”
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- Replace with: “a”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4510 | half way and fell to his side—“she ran out there an’ the one comin’ from N’York
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `comin` this way?
4511 | knock right into her, goin’ thirty or forty miles an hour.”
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- Replace with: “coin”
- Replace with: “comic”
- Replace with: “coming”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4510 | half way and fell to his side—“she ran out there an’ the one comin’ from N’York
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `N’York` this way?
4511 | knock right into her, goin’ thirty or forty miles an hour.”
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- Replace with: “York”
- Replace with: “Nanook”
- Replace with: “Newark”
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4510 | half way and fell to his side—“she ran out there an’ the one comin’ from N’York
4511 | knock right into her, goin’ thirty or forty miles an hour.”
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `goin` this way?
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- Replace with: “gain”
- Replace with: “gin”
- Replace with: “going”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4523 | “No, but the car passed me down the road, going faster’n forty. Going fifty,
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `faster’n` this way?
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- Replace with: “falter's”
- Replace with: “feaster's”
- Replace with: “fester's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4544 | New York. I was bringing you that coupé we’ve been talking about. That yellow
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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- Replace with: “coup”
- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
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Message: |
4560 | “It’s a blue car, a coupé.”
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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- Replace with: “coup”
- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
4564 | Some one who had been driving a little behind us confirmed this, and the
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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- Replace with: “Someone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4572 | “If somebody’ll come here and sit with him,” he snapped authoritatively. He
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `somebody's`?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “somebody's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4582 | Tom drove slowly until we were beyond the bend—then his foot came down hard, and
4583 | the coupé raced along through the night. In a little while I heard a low husky
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `coupé` this way?
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- Replace with: “coup”
- Replace with: “coupe”
- Replace with: “coups”
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Message: |
4588 | The Buchanans’ house floated suddenly toward us through the dark rustling trees.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Buchanans` this way?
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- Replace with: “Buchanan's”
- Replace with: “Buchanan”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
4635 | the house in a moment; I wouldn’t have been surprised to see sinister faces, the
4636 | faces of “Wolfshiem’s people,” behind him in the dark shrubbery.
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wolfshiem’s` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Welshmen's”
- Replace with: “Wolfe's”
- Replace with: “Wolsey's”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
4739 | Toward dawn I heard a taxi go up Gatsby’s drive, and immediately I jumped out of
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4740 | bed and began to dress—I felt that I had something to tell him, something to
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4741 | warn him about, and morning would be too late.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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4768 | It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4769 | Cody—told it to me because “Jay Gatsby” had broken up like glass against Tom’s
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4770 | hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out. I think that he
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
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4780 | her as his tent out at camp was to him. There was a ripe mystery about it, a
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4781 | hint of bedrooms up-stairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4782 | and radiant activities taking place through its corridors, and of romances that
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4783 | were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4784 | redolent of this year’s shining motor-cars and of dances whose flowers were
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4785 | scarcely withered. It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy—it
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 63 words long.
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4797 | pretenses. I don’t mean that he had traded on his phantom millions, but he had
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4798 | deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4799 | person from much the same strata as herself—that he was fully able to take care
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4800 | of her. As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities—he had no comfortable
| ~~~~~~~ This sentence is 47 words long.
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4814 | kissed her curious and lovely mouth. She had caught a cold, and it made her
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4815 | voice huskier and more charming than ever, and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4816 | of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4817 | of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4818 | hot struggles of the poor.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 53 words long.
Lint: Formatting (63 priority)
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4822 | was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot because I knew different
4823 | things from her . . . Well, there I was, ’way off my ambitions, getting deeper
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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- Remove error
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
4833 | They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4834 | profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4835 | coat’s shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4836 | were asleep.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4850 | saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the “Beale Street Blues” while a
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Beale` this way?
4851 | hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the
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- Replace with: “Bale”
- Replace with: “Beadle”
- Replace with: “Berle”
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4856 | Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4857 | suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4858 | and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4859 | tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed. And all the time
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 52 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4875 | “I don’t think she ever loved him.” Gatsby turned around from a window and
4876 | looked at me challengingly. “You must remember, old sport, she was very excited
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `challenging`?
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- Replace with: “challenging”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4921 | “I’m going to drain the pool to-day, Mr. Gatsby. Leaves’ll start falling pretty
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Leaves’ll` this way?
4922 | soon, and then there’s always trouble with the pipes.”
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- Replace with: “Leave's”
- Replace with: “Leaven's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4943 | “I suppose Daisy’ll call too.” He looked at me anxiously, as if he hoped I’d
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Daisy's`?
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- Replace with: “Daisy's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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4980 | “I’ve left Daisy’s house,” she said. “I’m at Hempstead, and I’m going down to
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Hempstead` this way?
4981 | Southampton this afternoon.”
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- Replace with: “Homestead”
- Replace with: “Bedstead”
- Replace with: “Demisted”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5015 | When I passed the ashheaps on the train that morning I had crossed deliberately
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `ashheaps` this way?
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- Replace with: “asthma's”
- Replace with: “airheads”
- Replace with: “ashcans”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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5016 | to the other side of the car. I supposed there’d be a curious crowd around there
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5017 | all day with little boys searching for dark spots in the dust, and some
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5018 | garrulous man telling over and over what had happened, until it became less and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5019 | less real even to him and he could tell it no longer, and Myrtle Wilson’s tragic
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5020 | achievement was forgotten. Now I want to go back a little and tell what happened
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 56 words long.
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
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5027 | intolerable part of the affair. Some one, kind or curious, took her in his car
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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- Replace with: “Someone”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5032 | For a while the door of the office was open, and every one who came into the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `everyone`?
5033 | garage glanced irresistibly through it. Finally some one said it was a shame,
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- Replace with: “everyone”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5033 | garage glanced irresistibly through it. Finally some one said it was a shame,
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
5034 | and closed the door. Michaelis and several other men were with him; first, four
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- Replace with: “someone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5034 | and closed the door. Michaelis and several other men were with him; first, four
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Style (31 priority)
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5034 | and closed the door. Michaelis and several other men were with him; first, four
| ^~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
5035 | or five men, later two or three men. Still later Michaelis had to ask the last
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- Insert “,”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5035 | or five men, later two or three men. Still later Michaelis had to ask the last
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
5036 | stranger to wait there fifteen minutes longer, while he went back to his own
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5041 | quieter and began to talk about the yellow car. He announced that he had a way
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5042 | of finding out whom the yellow car belonged to, and then he blurted out that a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5043 | couple of months ago his wife had come from the city with her face bruised and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5044 | her nose swollen.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5047 | again in his groaning voice. Michaelis made a clumsy attempt to distract him.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5057 | The hard brown beetles kept thudding against the dull light, and whenever
5058 | Michaelis heard a car go tearing along the road outside it sounded to him like
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
5057 | The hard brown beetles kept thudding against the dull light, and whenever
5058 | Michaelis heard a car go tearing along the road outside it sounded to him like
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “cargo”?
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- Replace with: “cargo”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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5059 | the car that hadn’t stopped a few hours before. He didn’t like to go into the
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5060 | garage, because the work bench was stained where the body had been lying, so he
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5061 | moved uncomfortably around the office—he knew every object in it before
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5062 | morning—and from time to time sat down beside Wilson trying to keep him more
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5063 | quiet.
| ~~~~~~ This sentence is 50 words long.
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
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5059 | the car that hadn’t stopped a few hours before. He didn’t like to go into the
5060 | garage, because the work bench was stained where the body had been lying, so he
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “workbench”?
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- Replace with: “workbench”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5087 | Michaelis opened the drawer nearest his hand. There was nothing in it but a
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5102 | Michaelis didn’t see anything odd in that, and he gave Wilson a dozen reasons
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5121 | Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the
5122 | ghost of a superior “Hm!”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `Hm` this way?
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- Replace with: “H”
- Replace with: “Ham”
- Replace with: “He”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5128 | Michaelis had seen this too, but it hadn’t occurred to him that there was any
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5136 | He began to rock again, and Michaelis stood twisting the leash in his hand.
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5146 | Wilson’s glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `ashheaps` this way?
5147 | fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.
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- Replace with: “asthma's”
- Replace with: “airheads”
- Replace with: “ashcans”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5155 | Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5155 | Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes
5156 | of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `T.` this way?
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- Replace with: “To”
- Replace with: “T”
- Replace with: “Tb”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5156 | of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `J.` this way?
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- Replace with: “Jr”
- Replace with: “J”
- Replace with: “Jg”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5156 | of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Eckleburg` this way?
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- Replace with: “Excalibur”
- Replace with: “Vicksburg”
- Replace with: “Iceberg”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5161 | “That’s an advertisement,” Michaelis assured him. Something made him turn away
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
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5162 | from the window and look back into the room. But Wilson stood there a long time,
5163 | his face close to the window pane, nodding into the twilight.
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “windowpane”?
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- Replace with: “windowpane”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5165 | By six o’clock Michaelis was worn out, and grateful for the sound of a car
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5168 | man ate together. Wilson was quieter now, and Michaelis went home to sleep; when
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5171 | His movements—he was on foot all the time—were afterward traced to Port
5172 | Roosevelt and then to Gad’s Hill, where he bought a sandwich that he didn’t eat,
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gad’s` this way?
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- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gd's”
- Replace with: “Gag's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5173 | and a cup of coffee. He must have been tired and walking slowly, for he didn’t
5174 | reach Gad’s Hill until noon. Thus far there was no difficulty in accounting for
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gad’s` this way?
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- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gd's”
- Replace with: “Gag's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5177 | hours he disappeared from view. The police, on the strength of what he said to
5178 | Michaelis, that he “had a way of finding out,” supposed that he spent that time
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Michael`?
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- Replace with: “Michael”
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
5181 | easier, surer way of finding out what he wanted to know. By half-past two he was
5182 | in West Egg, where he asked some one the way to Gatsby’s house. So by that time
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “someone”?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “someone”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5181 | easier, surer way of finding out what he wanted to know. By half-past two he was
5182 | in West Egg, where he asked some one the way to Gatsby’s house. So by that time
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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- Replace with: “someone”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5185 | At two o’clock Gatsby put on his bathing-suit and left word with the butler that
5186 | if any one phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool. He stopped at the
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `anyone`?
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- Replace with: “anyone”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5197 | for it until four o’clock—until long after there was any one to give it to if it
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `anyone`?
5198 | came. I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and
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- Replace with: “anyone”
Lint: Formatting (63 priority)
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5204 | where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . .
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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- Remove error
Lint: Capitalization (31 priority)
Message: |
5205 | like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous
| ^~~~ This sentence does not start with a capital letter
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- Replace with: “Like”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5208 | The chauffeur—he was one of Wolfshiem’s protégés—heard the shots—afterward he
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wolfshiem’s` this way?
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- Replace with: “Welshmen's”
- Replace with: “Wolfe's”
- Replace with: “Wolsey's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
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5208 | The chauffeur—he was one of Wolfshiem’s protégés—heard the shots—afterward he
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean `proteges`?
5209 | could only say that he hadn’t thought anything much about them. I drove from the
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- Replace with: “proteges”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5210 | station directly to Gatsby’s house and my rushing anxiously up the front steps
5211 | was the first thing that alarmed any one. But they knew then, I firmly believe.
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `anyone`?
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- Replace with: “anyone”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5230 | and out of Gatsby’s front door. A rope stretched across the main gate and a
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5231 | policeman by it kept out the curious, but little boys soon discovered that they
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5232 | could enter through my yard, and there were always a few of them clustered
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5233 | open-mouthed about the pool. Some one with a positive manner, perhaps a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5233 | open-mouthed about the pool. Some one with a positive manner, perhaps a
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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- Replace with: “Someone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5239 | untrue. When Michaelis’s testimony at the inquest brought to light Wilson’s
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Michaelis’s` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Michael's”
- Replace with: “Michaela's”
- Replace with: “Michaelmas's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5240 | suspicions of his wife I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in
5241 | racy pasquinade—but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn’t say a word.
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `masquerade`?
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- Replace with: “masquerade”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5242 | She showed a surprising amount of character about it too—looked at the coroner
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5243 | with determined eyes under that corrected brow of hers, and swore that her
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5244 | sister had never seen Gatsby, that her sister was completely happy with her
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5245 | husband, that her sister had been into no mischief whatever. She convinced
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 50 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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5253 | referred to me. At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5254 | house and didn’t move or breathe or speak, hour upon hour, it grew upon me that
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5255 | I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5256 | that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5257 | end.
| ~~~~ This sentence is 57 words long.
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5255 | I was responsible, because no one else was interested—interested, I mean, with
5256 | that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `everyone`?
5257 | end.
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- Replace with: “everyone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5279 | Meyer Wolfshiem’s name wasn’t in the phone book. The butler gave me his office
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wolfshiem’s` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Welshmen's”
- Replace with: “Wolfe's”
- Replace with: “Wolsey's”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5299 | Some one started to ask me questions, but I broke away and going up-stairs
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
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- Replace with: “Someone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5304 | Next morning I sent the butler to New York with a letter to Wolfshiem, which
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
5305 | asked for information and urged him to come out on the next train. That request
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Bolshie”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5308 | neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived; no one arrived except more police and
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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- Replace with: “Bolshie”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5309 | photographers and newspaper men. When the butler brought back Wolfshiem’s answer
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wolfshiem’s` this way?
5310 | I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and
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- Replace with: “Welshmen's”
- Replace with: “Wolfe's”
- Replace with: “Wolsey's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5313 | Dear Mr. Carraway. This has been one of the most terrible shocks of my life to
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
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- Replace with: “Caraway”
- Replace with: “Faraway”
Lint: Repetition (63 priority)
Message: |
5313 | Dear Mr. Carraway. This has been one of the most terrible shocks of my life to
5314 | me I hardly can believe it that it is true at all. Such a mad act as that man
| ^~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
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- Replace with: “me”
- Replace with: “I”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5322 | >
5323 | > Meyer Wolfshiem
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
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- Replace with: “Bolshie”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5327 | Let me know about the funeral etc do not know his family at all.
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `etc` this way?
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- Replace with: “eta”
- Replace with: “etc.”
- Replace with: “etch”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5333 | “This is Slagle speaking . . .”
| ^~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Slagle` this way?
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- Replace with: “Beagle”
- Replace with: “Eagle”
- Replace with: “Plague”
Lint: Formatting (63 priority)
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5333 | “This is Slagle speaking . . .”
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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- Remove error
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5341 | “Young Parke’s in trouble,” he said rapidly. “They picked him up when he handed
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Parke’s` this way?
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- Replace with: “Parks's”
- Replace with: “Parker's”
- Replace with: “Paige's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5343 | numbers just five minutes before. What d’you know about that, hey? You never can
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `d’you` this way?
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- Replace with: “bayou”
- Replace with: “you”
Lint: Formatting (63 priority)
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5349 | There was a long silence on the other end of the wire, followed by an
5350 | exclamation . . . then a quick squawk as the connection was broken.
| ^ Unnecessary space at the end of the sentence.
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- Remove error
Lint: Capitalization (31 priority)
Message: |
5350 | exclamation . . . then a quick squawk as the connection was broken.
| ^~~~ This sentence does not start with a capital letter
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- Replace with: “Then”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5352 | I think it was on the third day that a telegram signed Henry C. Gatz arrived
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `C.` this way?
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- Replace with: “Cu”
- Replace with: “C”
- Replace with: “Cc”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5352 | I think it was on the third day that a telegram signed Henry C. Gatz arrived
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
5353 | from a town in Minnesota. It said only that the sender was leaving immediately
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- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
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5359 | hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “graybeard”?
5360 | difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took
Suggest:
- Replace with: “graybeard”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5377 | “Carraway.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
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- Replace with: “Caraway”
- Replace with: “Faraway”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5385 | After a little while Mr. Gatz opened the door and came out, his mouth ajar, his
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
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- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5386 | face flushed slightly, his eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears. He had
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `punctual`?
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Lint: Readability (127 priority)
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5386 | face flushed slightly, his eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears. He had
| ^~~~~~~
5387 | reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5388 | when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5389 | of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms, his grief
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5390 | began to be mixed with an awed pride. I helped him to a bedroom up-stairs; while
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 56 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5396 | “Gatz is my name.”
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
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- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5398 | “—Mr. Gatz. I thought you might want to take the body West.”
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
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- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5412 | “If he’d of lived, he’d of been a great man. A man like James J. Hill. He’d of
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `J.` this way?
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- Replace with: “Jr”
- Replace with: “J”
- Replace with: “Jg”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5423 | “This is Mr. Carraway,” I said.
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
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- Replace with: “Caraway”
- Replace with: “Faraway”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5425 | “Oh!” He sounded relieved. “This is Klipspringer.”
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Klipspringer` this way?
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5455 | and I’m sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B. F.———”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `B.` this way?
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- Replace with: “Bu”
- Replace with: “Be”
- Replace with: “Bk”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5455 | and I’m sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B. F.———”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `F.` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Ft”
- Replace with: “F”
- Replace with: “Fa”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5464 | The morning of the funeral I went up to New York to see Meyer Wolfshiem; I
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Bolshie`?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Bolshie”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5466 | advice of an elevator boy, was marked “The Swastika Holding Company,” and at
5467 | first there didn’t seem to be any one inside. But when I’d shouted “hello”
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `anyone`?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “anyone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5472 | “Nobody’s in,” she said. “Mr. Wolfshiem’s gone to Chicago.”
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wolfshiem’s` this way?
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- Replace with: “Welshmen's”
- Replace with: “Wolfe's”
- Replace with: “Wolsey's”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5474 | The first part of this was obviously untrue, for some one had begun to whistle
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
5475 | “The Rosary,” tunelessly, inside.
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- Replace with: “someone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5477 | “Please say that Mr. Carraway wants to see him.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
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- Replace with: “Caraway”
- Replace with: “Faraway”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5481 | At this moment a voice, unmistakably Wolfshiem’s, called “Stella!” from the
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wolfshiem’s` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Welshmen's”
- Replace with: “Wolfe's”
- Replace with: “Wolsey's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5500 | She vanished. In a moment Meyer Wolfsheim stood solemnly in the doorway, holding
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Wolfsheim` this way?
5501 | out both hands. He drew me into his office, remarking in a reverent voice that
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Waldheim”
- Replace with: “Wolfe's”
- Replace with: “Wilhelm”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5507 | First time I saw him was when he come into Winebrenner’s poolroom at Forty-third
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Winebrenner’s` this way?
5508 | Street and asked for a job. He hadn’t eat anything for a couple of days. ‘Come
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Windbreaker's”
- Replace with: “Icebreaker's”
- Replace with: “Tiebreaker's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5508 | Street and asked for a job. He hadn’t eat anything for a couple of days. ‘Come
5509 | on have some lunch with me,’ I sid. He ate more than four dollars’ worth of food
| ^~~ Did you mean to spell `sid` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “sad”
- Replace with: “said”
- Replace with: “sic”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5519 | was a fine-appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was an
5520 | Oggsford I knew I could use him good. I got him to join up in the American
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Oggsford` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Oxford”
- Replace with: “Osborn”
- Replace with: “Osgood”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5552 | For a moment I thought he was going to suggest a “gonnegtion,” but he only
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `connection`?
5553 | nodded and shook my hand.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “connection”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5559 | drizzle. After changing my clothes I went next door and found Mr. Gatz walking
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
5560 | up and down excitedly in the hall. His pride in his son and in his son’s
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5582 | pocket a ragged old copy of a book called “Hopalong Cassidy.”
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Hopalong` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Along”
- Replace with: “Oblong”
- Replace with: “Coaling”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5601 | >
5602 | > No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable] No more smokeing or
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Shafters` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Shaffer's”
- Replace with: “Shatters”
- Replace with: “Shifters”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5602 | > No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable] No more smokeing or
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `smokeing` this way?
5603 | > chewing. Bath every other day Read one improving book or magazine per week
Suggest:
- Replace with: “smoking”
- Replace with: “shoeing”
- Replace with: “smocking”
Lint: Repetition (63 priority)
Message: |
5613 | great for that. He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it.”
| ^~~~ There are too many personal pronouns in sequence here.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “me”
- Replace with: “I”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5613 | great for that. He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it.”
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `et` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “e”
- Replace with: “ea”
- Replace with: “eat”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5629 | then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and a little later four
| ^~~~ Did you mean to spell `Gatz` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Ga's”
- Replace with: “Gate”
- Replace with: “GHz”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5631 | wet to the skin. As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car
5632 | stop and then the sound of some one splashing after us over the soggy ground. I
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “someone”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5633 | looked around. It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `marveling`?
5634 | over Gatsby’s books in the library one night three months before.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “marveling”
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
5642 | message or a flower. Dimly I heard some one murmur “Blessed are the dead that
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “someone”?
5643 | the rain falls on,” and then the owl-eyed man said “Amen to that,” in a brave
Suggest:
- Replace with: “someone”
Lint: Miscellaneous (31 priority)
Message: |
5642 | message or a flower. Dimly I heard some one murmur “Blessed are the dead that
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound `someone`?
5643 | the rain falls on,” and then the owl-eyed man said “Amen to that,” in a brave
Suggest:
- Replace with: “someone”
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
5642 | message or a flower. Dimly I heard some one murmur “Blessed are the dead that
5643 | the rain falls on,” and then the owl-eyed man said “Amen to that,” in a brave
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “rainfalls”?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “rainfalls”
Lint: Capitalization (31 priority)
Message: |
5653 | “Go on!” He started. “Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.”
| ^~~~ This sentence does not start with a capital letter
Suggest:
- Replace with: “They”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5660 | from college at Christmas time. Those who went farther than Chicago would gather
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5661 | in the old dim Union Street station at six o’clock of a December evening, with a
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5662 | few Chicago friends, already caught up into their own holiday gayeties, to bid
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5663 | them a hasty good-by. I remember the fur coats of the girls returning from Miss
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5662 | few Chicago friends, already caught up into their own holiday gayeties, to bid
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `gayeties` this way?
5663 | them a hasty good-by. I remember the fur coats of the girls returning from Miss
Suggest:
- Replace with: “gametes”
- Replace with: “gazettes”
- Replace with: “layettes”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5663 | them a hasty good-by. I remember the fur coats of the girls returning from Miss
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5664 | This-or-That’s and the chatter of frozen breath and the hands waving overhead as
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5665 | we caught sight of old acquaintances, and the matchings of invitations: “Are you
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5666 | going to the Ordways’? the Herseys’? the Schultzes’?” and the long green tickets
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 43 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5665 | we caught sight of old acquaintances, and the matchings of invitations: “Are you
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `matchings` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “matching”
- Replace with: “catchings”
- Replace with: “machines”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5665 | we caught sight of old acquaintances, and the matchings of invitations: “Are you
5666 | going to the Ordways’? the Herseys’? the Schultzes’?” and the long green tickets
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Ordways` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Endways”
- Replace with: “Midways”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5666 | going to the Ordways’? the Herseys’? the Schultzes’?” and the long green tickets
| ^~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Herseys` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Hersey's”
- Replace with: “Hersey”
- Replace with: “Hershey's”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5666 | going to the Ordways’? the Herseys’? the Schultzes’?” and the long green tickets
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `Schultz`?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Schultz”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5671 | When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5672 | stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5673 | small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5674 | air. We drew in deep breaths of it as we walked back from dinner through the
| ~~~~ This sentence is 44 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5678 | That’s my Middle West—not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5679 | the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5680 | bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5681 | windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 47 words long.
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
5679 | the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean the closed compound noun “streetlamps”?
5680 | bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted
Suggest:
- Replace with: “streetlamps”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5682 | long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Carraway` this way?
5683 | city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family’s name. I see
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Caraway”
- Replace with: “Faraway”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5683 | city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family’s name. I see
| ^~~~~~
5684 | now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5685 | Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5686 | common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: Style (31 priority)
Message: |
5684 | now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and
| ^~~~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
5685 | Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in
Suggest:
- Insert “,”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5685 | Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in
5686 | common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `adaptable`?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “adaptable”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5688 | Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5689 | superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5690 | interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old—even
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5691 | then it had always for me a quality of distortion. West Egg, especially, still
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 50 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5692 | figures in my more fantastic dreams. I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a
| ^~ Did you mean to spell `El` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Ea”
- Replace with: “Ed”
- Replace with: “En”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5692 | figures in my more fantastic dreams. I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a
| ^~~~~ Did you mean to spell `Greco` this way?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “Geo”
- Replace with: “Greece”
- Replace with: “Greek”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5693 | hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen,
5694 | overhanging sky and a lustreless moon. In the foreground four solemn men in
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `lusterless`?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “lusterless”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5712 | She was dressed to play golf, and I remember thinking she looked like a good
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5713 | illustration, her chin raised a little jauntily, her hair the color of an autumn
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5714 | leaf, her face the same brown tint as the fingerless glove on her knee. When I
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 43 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5714 | leaf, her face the same brown tint as the fingerless glove on her knee. When I
| ^~~~~~~~~~ Did you mean `linerless`?
Suggest:
- Replace with: “linerless”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5743 | One afternoon late in October I saw Tom Buchanan. He was walking ahead of me
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5744 | along Fifth Avenue in his alert, aggressive way, his hands out a little from his
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5745 | body as if to fight off interference, his head moving sharply here and there,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5746 | adapting itself to his restless eyes. Just as I slowed up to avoid overtaking
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 41 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5775 | “And if you think I didn’t have my share of suffering—look here, when I went to
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5776 | give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5777 | sideboard, I sat down and cried like a baby. By God it was awful—”
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 42 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5780 | entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5781 | people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5782 | back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5783 | them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 43 words long.
Lint: Style (31 priority)
Message: |
5780 | entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless
5781 | people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated
| ^~~ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
Suggest:
- Insert “,”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5791 | long as mine. One of the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5792 | entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside; perhaps it was
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5793 | he who drove Daisy and Gatsby over to East Egg the night of the accident, and
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5794 | perhaps he had made a story about it all his own. I didn’t want to hear it and I
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 54 words long.
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5797 | I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5798 | of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5799 | laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5800 | his drive. One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at
| ~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 45 words long.
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5807 | out clearly in the moonlight, and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along
| ^~~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `raspingly` this way?
5808 | the stone. Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “ragingly”
- Replace with: “rasping”
- Replace with: “dashingly”
Lint: WordChoice (54 priority)
Message: |
5814 | green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way
| ^~~ Use `it's` (short for `it has` or `it is`) here, not the possessive `its`.
Suggest:
- Replace with: “It's”
- Replace with: “It has”
Lint: Readability (127 priority)
Message: |
5814 | green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5815 | for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5816 | all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5817 | breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an esthetic
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5818 | contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5819 | in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This sentence is 70 words long.
Lint: WordChoice (63 priority)
Message: |
5817 | breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an esthetic
| ^~~~~~~~~~~ It seems these words would go better together.
5818 | contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time
Suggest:
- Replace with: “anesthetic”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5817 | breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an esthetic
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `esthetic` this way?
5818 | contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time
Suggest:
- Replace with: “aesthetic”
- Replace with: “aesthetics”
- Replace with: “pathetic”
Lint: Spelling (63 priority)
Message: |
5828 | Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year
| ^~~~~~~~ Did you mean to spell `orgastic` this way?
5829 | recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run
Suggest:
- Replace with: “orgasmic”
- Replace with: “orgiastic”
- Replace with: “organic”
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