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(b) In executing the forms employed in this joining, the reversing is done on the straight characters (t, d) or their modifications (ten-den, tem-dem, ent-end, emt-emd). Care should be taken to close the circle completely in each case.

Drill 2

Key: cart, curt, curtain, guard, garden, mart, Martin, skirt, inert, alert, vineyard, haggard, mallard, safeguard.

(c) An important distinction is made in reversing after p, b, and in reversing after other downward characters. After p, b, the reversed circle is always above the next character; in all other joinings it is below the next character. The first line of the following illustration shows the method of joining after p, b; the second, after other downward characters:

burn	barn	pared	barter	Bert
?	?	?	?	?
germ	charm	chart	farm	churn
?	?	?	?	?

Drill 3