SHORTHAND I (ENGLISH) 10. COMPOUND CONSONANTS AND VOWEL INDICATION There are 26 consonants each having single sound. There are some words in which combination of two consonants are used. Until a student is perfectly familiar with the each consonant and combination of consonants speed cannot be achieved. To improve the speed, writing compound consonants is given a symbol.
10.0 Objectives After going through this lesson you will– 1)
know the concept of compound consonants;
2)
know the formation of compound consonant by ‘w’ with ‘k ‘or ‘g’;
3)
know the formation or compound consonant by ‘w’ with ‘L’;
4)
know the formation or compound consonant by ‘w’ with ‘h’;
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be able to make strokes when the vowel preceeds ‘w’;
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be able to make the strokes of compound consonant ‘l’ with ‘r’;
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be able to make the stroke of compound consonant R with R;
8)
know how to indicate a vowel with consonants;
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know the formation of M with P/B; and
10)
be able to make strokes of grammalogues with compound consonant.
10.1 Introduction In this lesson, the sounds of eight compound consonants and its symbols are given. A number of combinations of consonants are also described. After doing practice of the compound consonants, the speed of shorthand writing considerably increases. How to indicate the vowels with compound consonants are also taught in this lesson.
10.2 Compound Consonants
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