Solutions to Lesson 11: Learning the O-Hook in Gregg Shorthand

Learn how to write key vowel sounds using the O-Hook + extra reading practice

Welcome back to the Learn Gregg Shorthand project! Just getting started with Gregg Shorthand? Check out the Archive and begin with Lesson 0.

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

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Reviewing the forms:

Translate the following:

Make, nail, jail, need, needle,

ham, cattle, map, drill, trip, dark.

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Learning The O-Hook:

The lower half of the following elliptical figure is called the O-Hook

It is used to express the following sounds:

Translate the following:

The long O (as in “No”)

No, toe, low, blow, hope, ocean, notion, motion, narrow,

obey, open, fellow, globe, drove, rode, rope,

so, sore, soul, soap, show, shown, showed, grow, hero.

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The sound of aw as in “raw”

Raw, brought, broad, abroad, ball, caution, cross, draw,

law, ought, saw, salt, talk, talked, taught, withdraw.

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The sound of o as in “hot”

Hot, top, lot, shop, shot, solid, sorry, sorrow,

job, lock, block, hospital, knock, spot.

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The hook is turned on its side to avoid an awkward angle:

Own, known, alone, tone, stone, home, omit,

or, door, nor, orange, hall, coal, college.

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Reading Homework:

GLOBE TROTTING (520 standard words)

Did you hear about the trip abroad that Joan and I made?