"may be."

378. The stroke mb

is freely used in phrasing

to represent may be. Illustrations: it may be

as

may be

you may be

We may be prefixed to may be by the w hook, thus: we may be

Although, in word-writing, this character represents mr, and is a word-sign for remark, no conflict can result from the "reporting license" which thus assigns two different significations to a single character.

Exercise

379. In the following phrases may be and we may be are to be represented in accordance with the instruction just given:

may be may be able may be also may be as (w)ell may be always may be certain may be aware

may be one may be only may be perceived may be placed may be ready may be reasonable may be received

may be considered

may be found

may be greatly

may be important

may be impossible

may be known

may be likely

may be made

may be never

may be reconciled

may be represented

may be required

may be right

may be said

may be so

may be some

may be sometime

may be sure

may be told

may be true

may be very sure

may be very (w)ell

may be worth

may be wrong

may be you

he may be certain

he may be (con)sidered

he may be ready

he may be said

he may be sure

I may be able

I may be aware

I may be (con)sidered

I may be one

I may be right

I may be worthy

I may be wrong

it may be also it may be found it may be only it may be rendered it may be represented it may be right it may be said it may be true it may be worth it may be you there may be always there may be certain there may be important there may be only there may be reasons there may be received there may be some there may be somehow there may be supposed they may be aware they may be likely they may be placed they may be received they may be represented they may be somehow they may he very sure we may be always we may be as (w)ell we may be certain we may be likely we may be reasonable we may be reconciled we may be responsible we may be right we may be said we may be sorry we may be wrong

you may be able you may be aware you may be certain you may be (con)sidered you may be found you may be known you may be one you may be only you may be ready

you may be reconciled you may be recognized you may be rendered you may be required you may be said you may be serviceable you may be surpassed you may be worth you may be wrong

"may have beeN." 380. In the following exercise, may have been is to be

represented by the brief elliptical sign mbn

Exercise

he may have been he may have been disposed he may have been taking I may have been asked I may have been coming may have been (con)demn-ed (con expressed by proximity) I may have been known I may have been positive it may have been asked it may have been (con)fessed* it may have been essential it may have been necessary it may have been so there may have been there may have been another

there may have been so

many they may have been anxious they may have been asking they may have been disposed they may have been doing they may have been taking we may have been asked we may have been capable we may have been especially which may have been known which may have been admitted there may have been cases there may have been no

necessity there may have been none

*Con expressed by proximity.

which may have been capable

which may have been possible

you may have been asking you may have been especially you may have been known

"to be."

381. B struck through the line, thus

is a sign

for to be.

Exercise

382. Write the following:

to be

to be also

to be always

to be aware

to be chosen

to be (con)sidered

to be embarrassed

to be just

to be limited

to be made

to be many times (tms)

to be ready to be reasonable to be received to be recognized to be reconciled to be rejected to be represented to be something to be sometimes to be that to be this

"to Have been."

383. Bn struck through the line, thus

is a sign,

according to the Graham system, for to have been.

Exercise

384. Write the following:

to have been to have been absent to have been another to have been asked to have been better

to have been decided to have been done to have been disposed to have been found to have been invited

to have been known to have been necessary

to have been passed to have been shown