Solutions to Lesson 50: How To Represent Quantities and Measurements in Gregg Shorthand

Also covering additional brief-form compounds, and quantities and measurements such as $5 / 500 / $500 / 5,000 / $5,000 / 500,000 / 5,000,000 / $5,000,000 / etc.

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Lesson 50: How To Represent Quantities and Measurements in Gregg Shorthand

Lesson 49: How to Use Brief Forms in Compound Words in Gregg Shorthand

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Continued: Can brief forms be used in compound words?

Answer: Yes of course! Here are some more examples to build from last time:

Whereabouts, whereas, wherever, wherefore, wherein, whereof, elsewhere.

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Whatsoever, Wheresoever, whensoever, whosoever, whomsoever.

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Somebody, somehow, someone, sometime, somewhat, somewhere.

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Within, withstand, forthwith, notwithstanding.

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How do you represent quantities and measurements in Shorthand?

$5; 500; $500; 5,000; $5,000; 500,000; 5,000,000; $5,000,000,

5 Ibs. (or £5); 500 lbs. (or £500); £5,000; £500,000; 5 gallons; 5 barrels; 5 bushels; 5 feet;

5 cwt.; 5 o’clock; 500 feet; 5 francs; 500 francs. A dollar; a pound; a million;

a gallon; per hundred; several hundred; several hundred dollars; a thousand dollars; few thousand dollars; a hundred thousand.

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Reading and Writing Exercise Translation:

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Dear Sir: Thank you for your very frank letter of January 5 regarding your account with us for $5,000. Everybody is up against it at some time or other. We have been ourselves. That is exactly why we are going to help you.