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Grammar Gremlins, Part I

Grammar Gremlins Part 1: A vainglory of verbs: Incorrect usages and how to correct them

Join PEG for a webinar about aspects of subject–verb agreement (concord), verb tenses, especially simple past vs present perfect, modal verbs, infinitive vs gerundive forms, and dangling participles.

Date: Thursday, 10 October 2024

Time: 18:00–20:00

Place: Online (Zoom meeting)

Facilitator: John Linnegar

Level: Introductory/intermediate, depending on an attendee’s familiarity with or competence at using verbs in a variety of contexts. Or their lack of/need for sound grammatical reasons for the corrections they make.

CPD hours: PEG members will earn CPD hours according to the criteria published on the PEG website. Attendees of the live presentation will receive a certificate confirming their attendance and the duration of the webinar. Those who are unable to attend the webinar live may submit their receipt as proof of having received the recording.

Prerequisites/foundational knowledge: No previous knowledge or experience is necessary. Attendees are invited to send the presenter their gripes with verb usage by at least three days prior to the webinar. Or to raise them in the Q&A time during the webinar. Every attempt will be made to include the responses during this session.

Pre-webinar materials: A set of passages will be provided in which problematic verb usages are present.

This is part of a three-part series:

Thursday, 10 October 2024 18:00–20:00 (CAT) Part 1: A vainglory of verbs: Incorrect usages and how to correct them
Thursday, 14 November 2024 18:00–20:00 (CAT) Part 2: A niggle of nouns, noun forms and pronouns: Incorrect usages and how to correct them
Thursday, 12 December 2024 18:00–20:00 (CAT) Part 3: A pétillant potpourri of problematic usages and how to correct them

About our facilitator

John Linnegar has been a teacher and trainer, and a passionate, sympathetic improver of writers’ words, during a career spanning 40+ years. As a mother-tongue speaker of English, he has published two textbooks on English usage: Engleish, our Engleish: Common Errors in South African English and how to resolve them (Pharos, 2013) and, with Ken McGillivray, grammar, punctuation and all that jazz … (MLA Publishers, 2019). He has also been a regular contributor of articles on English Grammar to PEGboard and of presentations to SENSE, MET, ITI and IPEd members.

About the webinar

During this webinar, some of the thornier aspects of incorrect verb usage will be covered and the set of sentences sent to attendees beforehand will be worked through. And if anyone does send in any questions or problems relating to verbs beforehand, or raise them during the webinar, these will be responded to. Hopefully, by the end of this webinar, the attendees will be armed with sound grammatical reasons for the corrections they make to authors’ incorrect verb usage.

Cost

Affiliation Early-bird registration fee1 Registration fee2 Early-bird three-part package deal (see below)
PEG members R295 R380 R710 (save R175)
Members of affiliated organisations3 R495 R580 R1 190 (save R295)
Non-affiliated members R695 R780 R1 670 (save R415)

1Before or on 3 October

2Between 4 and 8 October

3Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers (ASAIB), Professional Journalists’ Association of South Africa (ProJourn), Southern African Freelancers’ Association (SAFREA), South African Science Journalists’ Association (SASJA), the South African Translators’ Institute (SATI), Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA), Society of English-language professionals in the Netherlands (SENSE), Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd), Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) and Nordic Editors and Translators (NEaT).

Take advantage of the early-bird special: save money and secure your spot at this webinar by registering early!

EARLY-BIRD THREE-PART PACKAGE DEAL – SPECIAL DISCOUNT

Receive a special discount (of nearly 20%) if you register and pay for all THREE Grammar Gremlins webinars (Parts 1, 2 and 3) in advance in one transaction (by the early-bird deadline of the first webinar in the series, that is, on or before Thursday, 3 October 2024).

Please register by completing and emailing the registration form.

Deadline for registrations: 12:00 on Tuesday 8 October.

10 October, 2024 @ 18:00 - 20:00 Africa/Johannesburg at Online (Zoom) by PEG | Fourth quarter Nitty gritty Webinar Zoom

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