The Word *it*

The next exercise is to join the i and the t together to form our first word, which is it, the impersonal pronoun in English. Also, once upon a time, the word it was used for children, but we don't any more. But about 200 years ago, if you were reading a book, people would talk about a baby as it. And now we just talk about animals as it, and tables and chairs. Anyway, that's enough of the history of the word it.

So this is what you're going to do. The example is there.

We know already about angles and distances. We go light up, dark down, and then we do our flick, and we keep going light up, and then we go up to the t, dark down, and then we flick away just before the line. And then we go back, and we dot our i and we cross the t, after we've done it.

So we have two strokes, and they are different. One is the i, which just goes up to the line, and then it comes down hard, flick away; then the connecting line, and it goes up, and it goes up higher. And then we come down straight, not bent, straight, but on the same angle as the i, and then we flick away at the bottom, and then we dot and cross. And then we repeat. We do a line of the word it.

As we go, check that your letters are not going below the line. Check with a ruler that the angles are the same. You can do that by drawing lines through your letters, and then you will see more clearly if your angles are correct. There's nothing wrong with that. Just get a pencil or something, and get a ruler, and just put the ruler onto the main line of your letter and draw a line through it; make it longer. And then you can see very clearly whether or not your angles are equal and the same angle. Because you can trick yourself if you don't do that, and pretend that everything is right when it's not.

And make sure that the distances of your letters are equal. So your i and your t should be the same distance apart each time you draw the word it. And try to keep the spacing between the words the same. You can use a finger space between the words if you want to measure.

And let's proceed. Do a whole page of those.

Worksheet 8