343. When there or their immediately follows a word having the participial termination ing, a disjoined there tick (in the direction of either b or j) may be written in the place of the ing dot to express ing there or ing their. Of the two possible directions for the tick, that one should be chosen which varies most from the direction of the preceding stroke. Illustrations: loving their

raising

their

paying their

, choosing their

This heavy tick for there or their is sanctioned by Graham, not by Pitman.

Exercise

344. In the following exercise the detached tick for ing there or ing their is to be written in the direction of b:

acknowledging their approaching their beseeching their burning their enjoying their enriching their fetching their imagining their knowing their loaning their losing their maligning their matching their

observing their pledging their preaching their raising their rejoining their resigning their running their searching their silencing their signing their suggesting their turning their urging their

345. In the following phrases, the detached tick for ing there or ing their is to he written in the direction of j:

abusing their becoming their begging their causing their committing their (con)cerning their (con)sidering their costing their destroying their devoting their doing their embracing their exposing their

expressing their forsaking their giving their having their investing their moving their missing their passing their inducing their representing their striking their taking their testing their

346. Where the termination ing may be more conveniently written by the consonant stroke than by the ing dot, ing their may be expressed by making the ing stroke double length. (See Paragraphs 405, 407.)