Solutions to Lesson 8: Learning Multiple "S" Sounds in Gregg Shorthand

Check your work!

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

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After, put, did-date, people, my, all, most, for, shall-ship,

could, form-from, come, time, Dear Sir-desire, Mr.-market, what,

great, am-more, much, them, truth, other, this,

without, when, any, where-aware, every, is-his, change-which, little, should,

be-by-but, like, than-then, over, and-end, to-too-two, from them, I should be,

into that, has been, and I will be, with those.

Blending two “s” sounds:

When two “s” sounds are joined, they are blended as in the following examples:

Sense, senses; case, cases; face, faces; chance, chances;

dance, dances; place, places; dress, dresses; trace, traces.

Review the Following Brief Forms:

Under, must, some, such, first, business, cause-because, thorough-thoroughly-three, thing-think,

system-says, far-favor, public-publish, work, part, matter, again,

against, always, any-thing, something, everything.

Review the Following Brief Forms that also end with “s”:

Hours, yours, dates, others, truths, times, countries, changes, ships,

forms, businesses, causes, things, systems, publishes, works, parts, matters.

Reading Exercise:

A Fairy Tale (678 standard words)

There is a fairy tale about a man with one maid marrying a lady with two maids.