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 ..

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by  Pitman, Isaac, Sir, 1813-1897

[AN'S
.THAND WRITING
AND
iXERCISES
;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
insuchawaythatthestudent maynotonlythoroughly master
2each principle as it is reached in the course of his study, but
uL*ithat he is enabled at the same time to acquire a very extensive
knowledge of words and the outlines for them, and also to
5gcommence the practice of writing from dictation almost 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 isscarcelynecessary tosay that thiswork is not intended
" "
to take the place of Pitman's Shorthand Instructor or
uj any of the other text-books of the system. It is supplement-
ary to those, and the Exercises herein contained will be most
E~j
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 tothe briefdirections at the headof theExercises,
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
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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 ofeach