Lesson 16: New phrasing principles - rules for seamlessly adding "to", "as", and "able" to phrases
+ Special forms like: "Dearly, daily, nearly, merely, likely, names, letters, families."
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Let’s start by reviewing the forms from previous lessons:
Memorize the following special forms:
Dearly, daily, nearly, merely, likely, names, letters, families.
In phrases, “to” can be represented by the “t” stroke:
To own, to honor, to obey, to our, to like, to see, to say, to pay, to place, to believe.
When a phrase begins with “as”, it is represented by an “s” stroke:
As well as, as good as, as low as, as much as, as great as, as soon as.
When a phrase contains the words “be” or “been”, and is followed by “able”, it is expressed with the “a” loop:
Have been, I have been able, have not been able, I have not been able, would be able, I would be able, he would be able, they would be able, you would be able, should be able,
you should be able, will be able, I will be able, you will be able, he will be able, may be able,
I may be able, you may be able, he may be able, they may be able, to be able, has been able.
Reading Exercise:
“Joan of Arc” (710 Standard Words)
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