337. Any word which, as ordinarily written, has a disjoined prefix (such as incompetent, recognize, etc.), takes in a phrase its ordinary form, the prefix being joined, if convenient, to the preceding word, if there be one. Illustrations: we are incompetent

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you may recognize

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The prefix may be modified by an initial hook or circle to express in whole or in part a preceding word. Illustrations: we magnify

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we may accompany*

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, it is incon ceivable

*Phrases introducing accom cannot be written by Graham writers in the way here indicated, as they express this prefix by a heavy dot, not by the k stroke, as Pitman writers do.

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we recognize

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in recognition

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Exercise

338. In the following phrases the prefixes are indicated by italics:

did you recognize

did you recommend

do you accomplish

do you contradict

do you recognize

do you recommend

if incompatible

if we recommend

in contradistinction

in controversy

in his incomprehensible

in his uncompromising

in order (to) accommodate

in order (to) accomplish

in order to magnify

in order to recognize

in order to recommend

in my recognition

in the accompanying

in their incompetence

it is accomplished

it is incomplete

it is inconceivable

it is not accompanied

may be recognized

mus(t) magnify

mus(t) recompense

my misconduct

our recompense

public recognition

these disconnected reasons

we magnify

we may accompany

we may magnify

we may reconcile

we recognize

we recommend

we might accomplish

when we recognize

with recommendations

you may recommend

you may reconcile