Solutions to Lesson 16: New phrasing principles - rules for seamlessly adding "to", "as", and "able" to phrases

+ Reading exercise solutions

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

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Reviewing the forms from previous lessons:

Either, loves, collected, companies, becoming, prepared, real-regard,

wants, receives, situations, gladden, also, gives, got,

next, presents, letter-let, morning, some, such, matters,

parted, against, publishes, always, about them, very well, I should be,

I have been, there has been, after, very truly yours, over, I could not, I did not,

he would not, what was, into the, I can go, in the, I told, he told me,

several days, upon the, if you would be, I have given, for these.

Memorize the following special forms:

Dearly, daily, nearly, merely, likely, names, letters, families.

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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.

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Reading Exercise:

“Joan of Arc” (710 Standard Words)

If you have not already heard the story of the brave little girl, Joan of Arc, send for the book Mr. Paine wrote.