-Sive,-tive.

26. The terminations sive, tive, may be denoted, on the same principle as in the preceding case, by a short v, written in connection with the preceding consonant. As this symbol can never occur in ordinary notation, except after 1 and r, it is in all other cases entirely free from ambiguity. S or z may be added for the plural.

27. The chief advantage, and it is a very sufficient one, of thus extending the list of these syllabic abbreviations, consists in the readiness with which, by their means, a vast number of words can be expressed with unmistakable definiteness, by single letters of the Alphabet, joined to the appropriate symbol for a Prefix or Termination. The letter s, for instance, with the symbol (v,) for vile, vice, or vant, gives a simple and perspicuous notation for the words servile, service, and servant. In this way, the class of symbols which in other systems of Shorthand are required to indicate vowels, become representative of important syllables.

28. This principle will be found fully illustrated in the Vocabulary of Logograms, in connection with the Prefix Symbols. It will be unnecessary to give here a collective Table of the Prefixes. The learner will find them under their respective letters in the Vocabulary.

29. The Terminations of the different classes are collected in the following Tables for convenience of reference.

GENERAL LIST OF TERMINATIONS.

I. VOWEL PLACE TERMINATIONS.
(Written at top.)

Represented by their initial letter. Those ending in tion, have a hook joined; those in y have a dot added.

Represented by their initial letter. Those ending in tion, (except inction) have a hook joined; those in y, a dot added. For or add r; for ive add v; for ing add ring, &c.

Represented by their initial letter. Those ending in y have a dot added.

Prefix initial letter to b for dable, gable, gible, (j,) cable, (k,) mable, rable, sible, table, tible. Prefix initial letter to s for dist, list, mist, pist, rist, list.

30. In accordance with the general principle of abbreviation stated in par. 14, all words of the SUBORDINATE grammatical classes-articles, prepositions, pronouns, and connectives-are written WITHOUT FULL SIZED CONSONANTS. This, with the accentual mode of writing other words, renders each sentence emphatic to the eye, and distinguishes between subordinate and principal words which have the same consonants; such as during and daring, till (adverb) and till (verb,) very and vary, soon and sign, none and пип, &c.

31. The most common of the subordinate words are written altogether in tick size; in other cases, those letters which have no preceding vowel are written in tick-size, and those which have a preceding vowel, are written larger, or in half size. The auxiliary verbs HAVE, SHALL,

and WILL, are denoted by their initial letters in full size. The W for will may be written either thick or thin.

32. The following Table contains words represented by single consonants. The first column consists chiefly of pronouns and prepositions, the symbols for which are written in tick size. The second column contains words represented by half sized letters. Some of these do not properly belong to this class of symbols, such as d for did, w for with, y for yes, &c.,-half sized consonants, according to the general rule implying a vowel after them. In these cases therefore it may be necessary to insert a vowel dot to distinguish the words of the regular class -at least in those few instances where the context would not render the distinction sufficiently manifest. The words in the third column are represented by full sized characters, which according to the fundamental principle imply a preceding vowel. All the words are regular in this respect, except have, shall, and will; the symbols for which are perfectly distinctive, as these full sized letters never occur as the single element of a word, except in the one instance of sh in the word ash.