Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“What?” “Want any?” “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.” I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
From this reading ““No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.””
a period of 10 years
From this reading “Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading “Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
of momentous or ominous significance
From this reading “Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
past form of “remember” — recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
From this reading ““No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.””
(of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching
From this reading “Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
From this reading “I was thirty.”
possessive form of “today” — the present time or age
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading ““Want any?””
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading “Want any?”
earlier than; in front of
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
From this reading “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”
a period of 10 years
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”
and nothing more
From this reading “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
not any; not one
From this reading “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
of momentous or ominous significance
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
past form of “remember” — recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
From this reading “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
(of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
From this reading I was thirty.
possessive form of “today” — the present time or age
From this reading “No … I just remembered that today’s my birthday.”
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading “Want any?”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I was thirty.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What?”
Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald holds 405 sentences, grouped into 81 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 7 holds 405 sentences of The Great Gatsby, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 405 sentences, grouped into 81 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 7 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Great Gatsby, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
