Solutions to Lesson 9: How to write "X" and the past tense in Gregg Shorthand

+ NEW BRIEF FORMS

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

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Again, matters, some, under, far-favor, working, everything,

public-publish, always, anything, against, systems, cause-because, must,

thorough-thoroughly-three, business, first, such, much, put, shall-ship, have, for, it has been,

I have not been, before the, very good, I should be, from them, it was.

The letter “X” is usually expressed by an “S” with a slightly modified slant:

Miss, mix; misses, mixes; fix, fixes; tax, taxes.

“Sh” is used to express the suffix -tion, or -sion

Nation, action, mention, fashion, section, election, vacation, relation.

A disjointed “T” is used to express past tense of abbreviated words:

Caused, changed, desired, favored, formed, liked, parted, shipped.

However, when the word is written in full, the past tense is joined (if possible):

Saved, traced, checked, fixed, marked, placed.

New Brief Forms:

Also, nothing, between, another, woman, morning, letter-let,

present-presence, big-beg, give-given, till-tell, tells, still, until, got,

gave, next, soon, name.

Reading Homework:

“Taxes” (681 standard words)

The raising of money with which to pay debts and finance the public business is always an immense task for the members of the Senate and the members of the other national chamber.