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[AN'S .THAND WRITING iXERCISES AND ;AMINATION TESTS TWENTIETH CENTURY EDITION 1 THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES PITMAN'S SHORTHAND WRITING EXERCISES Pitman's Shorthand Writing Exercises and Examination Tests A Series of Graduated Exercises on Every Rule in the System and Adapted for use by the Private Student or in Public Classes SflORTHANl)! EIGHTH* '^EDITION London Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1 Amen Corner, E.C. Bath and New York. Entered at Stationert' Hall PRINTED BY SIR ISAAC PITMAN & SONS, LTD., LONDON, BATH, AND NEW YORK PREFACE THE chief object of this work is to provide the student of Pitman's Shorthand with a series of exhaustive Exercises on every rule in the system. An examination of the arrange- ment of the Exercises will show that they have been prepared in such a way that the student may not only thoroughly master 2 each principle as it is reached in the course of his study, but uLi * that he is enabled at the same time to acquire a very extensive knowledge of words and the outlines for them, and also to the of dictation almost from 5g commence practice writing from - the beginning of his study of the theory. Facility in writing B^ and in reading shorthand may therefore be obtained along ^ with a perfect mastery of the principles, and thus the student ^ will be saved a good deal of valuable time. It is scarcely necessary to say that this work is not intended " " to take the place of Pitman's Shorthand Instructor or of the other text-books of the It is uj any system. supplement- ary to those, and the Exercises herein contained will be most ~Ej correctly written, and with the greatest benefit to the student, if he will take care always to refer to his text-book before commencing to work the Exercises on any rule. Attention to this, and to the brief directions at the head of the Exercises, will enable the student to work through the various sections with few or no mistakes. It is probable that the student will meet in these Exercises 448459 6 PREFACE with some words that are unfamiliar to him. He is recom- mended in such a case invariably to refer to the dictionary for the meaning of the words, remembering that transcription of shorthand notes is all the more easy when the meaning of the words is perfectly understood by the writer. It may be pointed out, too, that the Exercises contain very many illustrations of the principle of Word-Building, and that the student will be able to construct innumerable other out- lines on the plan suggested by the examples referred to. The total number of words in the sentence exercises is given in the figures in parenthesis at the end of each CONTENTS PAGE 1-6 LONG VOWELS ..... 9 7-12 SHORT AND LONG VOWELS , . .12 13-17 DIPHTHONGS . .... 16 CIRCLE 18-23 S AND Z . .20 24-29 st LOOP AND sir . .24 30-35 SS CIRCLES SW AND OR S2 . .30 36-41 VOWELS AND S AND t . .35 42 CONTRACTIONS . .40 HOOK / ADDED TO STRAIGHT LETTERS . 41 HOOK r ADDED TO STRAIGHT LETTERS . 42 45-50 INITIAL HOOKS TO STRAIGHT LETTERS . 44 51 HOOK / ADDED TO CURVES . .48 HOOK r ADDED TO CURVES . .51 INITIAL . HOOKS . .54 58-64 CIRCLES AND LOOPS PREFIXED TO INITIAL HOOKS . 57 CONTRACTIONS . .64 n HOOK ...... 64 f OR V HOOK . .66 68-72 THE HOOKS n, AND / OR v . .69 73-79 CIRCLES AND LOOPS ADDED TO FINAL HOOKS . 72 80-86 THE -tion HOOK . .79 87-92 ADDITIONAL DOUBLE CONSONANTS . .87 93 CONTRACTIONS . .93 94-99 THE ASPIRATE . .94 100-105 UPWARD AND DOWNWARD / . J01 106-111 UPWARD AND DOWNWARD f . .109 112-114 UPWARD AND DOWNWARD sh . .118 115 CONTRACTIONS . .122 116-127 THE HALVING PRINCIPLE .... 123 128-133 THE DOUBLE-LENGTH PRINCIPLE . .141 134 CONTRACTIONS . .149 135-141 VOCALIZATION OF pi, f>f, ETC. .150 141^-1 47 IV AND y DIPHTHONGS . .158 148 CONTRACTIONS . , .169 8 CONTENTS EXERCISE PAGE 149-154 DISYLLABIC DIPHTHONGS . , 170 155-160 PREFIXES .... 177 161-166 SUFFIXES .... 185 167 CONTRACTIONS ... 195 168-173 GRAMMALOGUES ... 196 174-179 OMISSION OF CONSONANTS, ETC. 202 180-184 CONTRACTIONS . 208 185-186 PHRASEOGRAPHY . 214 187-188 PUNCTUATION, ETC. 217 189-190 WRITING IN POSITION . 219 191 FIGURES .... 221 192 NEGATIVE PREFIXES . 222 193-196 REPORTING GRAMMALOGUES . 223 197-199 REPORTING CONTRACTIONS 226 200-203 ADVANCED PHRASEOGRAPHY . 229 204-206 BUSINESS PHRASES AND CONTRACTIONS 233 207 POLITICAL PHRASES . 236 208 LAW PHRASES . 237 209 THEOLOGICAL PHRASES . 238 210 INTERSECTED WORDS 239 KEY TO " PITMAN'S SHORTHAND WRITING EXERCISES AND EXAMINATION TESTS" Containing Keys in engraved short- hand to the Exercises. Uniform with this work. Price 33. 6d. WRITING EXERCISES EXERCISE 1. Long* Vowels. Vowels placed at the left side of an upright or sloping con- sonant, or above a horizontal, are read before the consonant. Vowels placed at the right side of an upright or sloping consonant, or below a horizontal, are read after the consonant. The student is directed by small capital letters when to write the consonants sh, I, r, and h downward. Grammalogues and contractions are printed in italic. 1 pa, palm, paw, pall, pawnee, pawed, pay, paid, pale, 2 page, pane, pooh, ope, pope, poke, pole, poRe, bay, babe, 3 bake, bait, bale, bailee, bathe, bane, beau, boat, bowl, 4 boRe, boo, bee, bought, eat, ate, oat, tea, toe, toad, tome, 5 toll, tollage, toRe, Tay, tape, take, tame, tail, taRe, awed, 6 ode, day, date, dado, dame, dale, daRe, do, doe, dote, 7 dodo, dole, dome, dooR, donate, donee, aid, Dee, each, 8 chew, choke, jay, Jake, jail, jaw, Joe, Job, joke, Jew, age, 9 caw, Coe, cope, code, coach, coke, comb, coal, coRe, cocoa, 10 coo, Kay, cape, Cato, Cade, cage, cake, came, kale, oak. 11 ache, eke, auk, key, gay, gape, gate, gauge, game, gale, 12 goat, goal, goRe, Gaul, fay, fade, faith, fame, faiL, faRe, 13 fee, faix, foe, folk, foam, foaL, foRe, foRego, eve, vague, 14 veiL, vote, vogue, VOLC, oath, thaw, thee, they, ace, say, 15 saw, so, sew, see, ooze, ease, owes, Zoo, snah, snape, 16 snade SHake, sname, snaRe, snaw, SHOW, snowed, SHORC, 17 SHoe, SHC, ma, may, make, maim, mail, maRe, maw, 18 maul, mow, mope, mole, aim, moo, nay, nape, name, naiL no. 19 : knee, gnaw, knoLL, NORC, e'en, own, ail, eel, awl, 9 10 WRITING EXERCISES 20 lay, laid, lake, lave, lame, laiR, lee, law, laud, low, lobe, 21 load, loaf, loth, loathe, loam, loRe, loo, aiR, eaR, oaR, ray, 22 rate, rage, rake, raiL, rare, re, raw, wrought, roe, rope, 23 robe, rote, rode, roach, rogue, roam, TOLL, roar, rue, way, 24 wade, wage, ware, we, woe, woad, wore, woo, wee, ye, 25 yew, yea, Haw, Hay, Hake, Haigh, noe. EXERCISE 2. Long1 Vowels (continued). A third-place vowel, between two strokes, is written before the second stroke. 1 beet, deep, cheap, keep, sneep, neap, leap, reap, weep, 2 heap, eat, beat, keyed, feed, lead, reed, weed, heed, each, 3 peach, beach, teach, leech, reach, liege, eke, peak, beak, 4 teak, meek, leek, reek, league, thief, leaf, leave, teeth, 5 Keith, Meath, wreath, heath, wreathe, beam, team, deem, 6 theme, ream, eel, peel, deal, keel, meal, feeL, veaL, kneeL, 7 reeL, eaR, peeR, beeR, teaR, deeR, jeeR, geaR, feaR, 8 veeR, sneaR, leeR, meRe, rear, weir, boom, tomb, doom, 9 loom, room, poop, coop, loop, rupee, hoop, pool, cool, 10 Goole, fooL, ruLe, boot, jute, root, chewed, food, rude, 11 wooed, pooR, booR, mooR, retail, Nero, oatmeal. EXERCISE 3. Long1 Vowels (continued). GRAMMALOGUES. s . who all, \ be, , he, the, , (down). 1. He may load all the Hay. 2. Who may take the meal ? 3. Who may he be who rode the bay maRe ? 4. Paul may go all the way. 5. He may take the oRe. 6. sne may weep all the day. 7. The Pawnee may take the wreath. 8. Joe Booth may vacate the poop. 9. May Ruth Cope read the tale ? WRITING EXERCISES 11 10. Joe Bate may teach me the polo game. 11. We feaR the thief may locate the rare peach. 12. May we go forth ? 13. All who read the theme may weep. 14. SHOW me the bailee who came. 15. We all say the leech may see the deep me Re. 16. May Paul Booth lead the sneep ? 17. We may all aid pooR Paul. 18. We hope the day may be faiR. (118) EXERCISE 4. Long1 Vowels (continued). 1. May we SHOW the pale hero the way we weed ? 2. He may take heed. 3. Paul Page may take the mail coach. 4. May he read all the way ? 5. We feaR the rogue may peach. 6. Who may lead the maRe, Joe ? 7. SHC may faLL. 8. We all hope sue may reach the mooR. 9. We saw the rude rogue who rowed the boat take the boot. 10. He may be the thief who beat Dame Bate. 11. May we take the peeR the faRe ? 12. We hope pooR Joe Beach may keep the cape we bought. 13. We feaR he may leave the meal. (96) EXERCISE 5. Long1 Vowels (continued). 1. Joe Hague may keep all the change. 2. Who saw the meek deeR move O'CR the mooR ? 3. They may reach the deep pool. 4. Paul may see the game. 5. He may take all the oatcake. 6. SHOW me the way they rode. 7. The rude foe may retake the gate.