🔴✏️ 📆 Rescheduled from May! LIVE this Saturday: Sentence Diagramming


June Offerings

I want to thank you all for understanding the postponement of the diagramming class. All is well once again in the Wells household. So June is going to be a busy month.

Happy punctuating!

Margie


LIVE This Weekend

The Basics of Sentence Diagramming (rescheduled)

This is a two-hour basic sentence diagramming class. We will look at and practice the standard diagramming techniques.

Using the conventional diagramming baseline, we will cover subjects and verbs, direct objects, predicate nominatives, basic modifiers, verbals, and compound construction.

If you signed up before, you are good to go. And if you missed signing up and want to join us on Saturday, by all means, click below and enroll. It is .2 CEUs and is just $49 – and you get to create pictures for the family fridge!!

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Saturday, June 8
9:00 - 11:00 AM PDT

Later This Month

Good Grammar Essentials

If I had to choose the most favorite and least favorite of all the classes I teach, grammar would certainly be one of the top favorites. (Yes, capitalization and hyphens definitely rank as Numbers 100 and 101!) What continues to be true for me is that knowledge of grammar is essential to one’s ability to more easily turn out a well-put-together transcript. A knowledge of grammar makes the reporting world more manageable.

Though I would love to go into all the technicalities of grammar and make this a months-long course, I am sure many of you do not share my enthusiasm. So we are going to the other extreme: eight hours – just enough time for us to cover the basics. 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. The fee is $224 with a reduced price of $199 for early registration (by June 15) and for students with verification of enrollment in a reporting program. 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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Beginning Saturday, June 22

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Margie Wakeman Wells

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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