Solutions to Lesson 37: How to Write “tern,” “dern,” and “ther” syllables in Gregg Shorthand

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Lesson 37: How to Write “tern,” “dern,” and “ther” syllables in Gregg Shorthand

Lesson 35: How to Write ‘Do Not’ and ‘Don’t’ in Gregg Shorthand Using the [den] Blend

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Review the following:

The syllables ‘tern’, ‘dern’ are expressed by Gregg Shorthand stroke for [ten].

Western, eastern, attorney, eternal, fraternity, pattern, modern.

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The syllable ‘ther’ can be written with the [th] curve.

Neither, gather, mother, brother, weather, bother, leather, hitherto.

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Memorize the following special forms:

Christmas, citizen, civil, clerk, commerce, commercial,

compare, comparative, consequent-consequence, conclude, conclusion, congress,

connect, conspicuous, constitution, conversation.

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Reading and Writing Exercise Translation:

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Dear Robert: Yesterday I had a conversation with the clerk in the office and he tells me that we shall have three days for our Christmas holidays. Because of this I cannot make that journey north with you. I am going to visit my mother and father. One of my fraternity friends has a big modern car and has promised to drive me home.