78. Initial displacement is not to be resorted to whenever practicable, but only when necessary. For the sake of legibility, it is generally desirable that the first word of the phrase, rather than the second or the third, should be in its normal position. To bring the second or the third into position by displacing the word or words preceding, is an exceptional device, not readily applied off-hand, and to be resorted to only when it serves some useful purpose. The young student should be chary of undertaking to invent for himself phrases of this class. There will be little need of such phrases outside of those included from time to time in the exercises of this book.

*In this exercise whom is supposed to be written with the m stroke in the third position, according to Benn Pitman.