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Margie Wakeman Wells

⏰ ✏️ My Grammar Course Begins This Weekend!

Published almost 2 years ago • 1 min read

Reader,

Many of your colleagues and friends have already signed for my eight-hour grammar course starting this weekend. It is probably the most essential course that I teach, and it is a little different every time I do it.

If you haven't enrolled and are on the fence about whether to sign up or not, know that this is the only time this year I'm giving this class. I could teach for months on grammar, but I've packed up the most important things you need to know in one accelerated course in two weekends. A knowledge of grammar makes the reporting world more manageable and makes you more capable.

Hope to see you this weekend! Enrollment closes Friday at midnight.

Happy punctuating!

Margie

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Good Grammar Essentials

How do you spot the subject and verb? What is the difference between a verb and a verbal? Which conjunctions link which kinds of elements? What do you mean “modifier”? What’s the difference between a phrase and a clause?

Do the answers to these questions matter? Absolutely.

June 22 9:00 to 11:00 AM PDT
​June 23 12:30 to 2:30 PM PDT
​June 29 9:00 to 11:00 AM PDT
​June 30 12:20 to 2:30 PM PDT

Eight hours, .8CEUs. In addition, those enrolled in the course will receive a coupon code for 10 percent off for my new grammar book, Good Grammar, due out this summer.

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Margie Wakeman Wells

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Margie began teaching in 1964 and joined the court reporting world twelve years later. She taught the machine and all aspects of English for traditional programs before establishing her own online school in 2015. She is the author of English-related books that present practical solutions for applying standard English rules to the spoken word. Through Margie Holds Court, she teaches classes, presents for state and national organizations, authors a blog on all things English, and runs a subscription service to answer daily questions.

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