Solutions to Lesson 14: Add an "S" to an implied "R" by elongating the loops

+ Check your reading comprehension with the homework solutions

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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Let’s start by reviewing the forms from previous lessons:

Day, dare, dear, tea, tear, knee, near, me, mere,

many, manner, ready, reader, she, sheer,

hate, heart, add, hard, aim, arm, harm,

hit, hurt, inn, earn, edge, urge, head, heard, if you will,

I have given, for them, there are, there will be, I cannot believe, orders, believing,

recall, estate, between, woman, name, did-date, others.

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Add an “S” to the implied “R” by elongating the circle:

To show an S sound at the end of a word like dare, you just change the final circle (used for R) into a loop.

Dares, manners, cheers, chairs, flatters, owners, leaders,

readers, sisters, steamers, visitors, registers, ledgers.

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New Brief Forms Unlocked:

Either, above, rather, love, collect, capital, deal-dear, real-regard, company-keep,

book-become, importance-important, necessary, yesterday, together, children, prepare, subject, opinion.

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Reading Homework:

“A Hard Times Story” (695 standard words)

Are hard times necessary to give this country greater and better men, or, rather, is it that some folks have risen above their lot and have become great, regardless of their situation?