Solutions to Lesson 10: Learning how to form more words with brief forms in Gregg Shorthand

Check your Reading Comprehension!

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Let’s check our work from yesterday’s assignment.

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Reviewing the forms from previous lessons:

Translate the following:

Named, favored, also, thorough-thoroughly-three, between, shipping, morning, for, letter-let,

systems, another, changed, big-beg, something, until, come,

got, little, presents, my, when, woman,

have, nothing, did-date, still, great, soon, I could not, I would not,

he would be, into the, to this, has been, Dear Madam.

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Brief forms are often used as parts of other words:

Almost, income, increase, ago, inform,

underneath, handle, forgive, begin.

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Phrase Drill:

For the, for this, for that, for those, for these, for them, for you, there is, there was,

there are, there will be, if you would, if you would be, if you are, if you are not,

if you will, if you will be, I have given, I have never, I have not been.

Reading Homework:

“A LITTLE PIN” (587 standard words)

"I would not steal a little pin" is a saying that has little meaning for the people of the present day, as any woman would give you a pin if you desired it.