This section is from the book "The Science And Art Of Phrase-Making", by David Wolfe Brown. Also available from Amazon: The science and art of phrase-making.
ought to have this ought to have that ought to have none ought to have now ought to have shown
ought to have information ought to have been ought to have become ought to have found ought to have information
486. It, which and such, in the first position, with the v hook attached, may be used to represent respectively, it ought to have, which ought to have, and such ought to have;
thus: it ought to have
which ought to have
such ought to have
In these cases ought is neither written nor indicated, unless we may regard it as being indicated by the mere position of the hooked stroke. (It will be observed that it ought to have is in the Benn Pitman system written in precisely the same way as ought to have. In the-Graham system, the latter phrase is written by adding to the ordinary sign for ought the v hook.)
487. These three signs are recommended by both Graham and Benn Pitman, and though somewhat anomalous, they afford when well learned a convenient means of writing three very common and useful phrases.
 
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