Solutions to Lesson 40: When to leave the "T" out of the end of words in Gregg Shorthand
Review the forms from the previous lesson and check your answers to the reading homework.
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Review the following:
Often, the “T” sound can be left out of certain shorthand forms:
(a) Best, rest, test, contest, protest, invest, honest, request,
past, last, just, adjust, insist, consist, persist, exist, cost.
(b) Act, enact, fact, exact, project, affect, conduct,
product, adapt, adopt, evident, student, highest, earliest.
In cases where the terminal “T” is not obvious, its good form to include it.
Lost, east, fast, cast, vast, least, dust, taste, missed,
mixed, post, coast, worst, distant, intent, content, extent, patent.
Reading and Writing Exercise Translation:
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“CHOICES”
Life consists of choices. We must face the fact that we must forget the past and decide whether we shall build our lives on the highest and finest things or whether we are going to be content to be drifters.
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