The Palmer Method of Business Writing · Lesson 125 · Part 14: Sentences and line-writing

120. Drills 148 and 149: sentences with M and N

Goal: Your child writes the M and N sentences, a page or half page of each.

⏱ About 15 minutes · 6 steps

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You'll need

  • Wide-ruled lined paper (several sheets)
  • A sharp pencil or a smooth gel pen
  • The book open at today's page

What's in the book

Lesson 125 has two copies: drill 148, "Mills and Milligan are good millers," and drill 149, "Nine months after date I promise to pay."

The lesson, step by step

  1. Warm up

    Two or three minutes of your usual movement drills: compact ovals, then a line each of small o, m and l.

    Then a line each of capital M and N.

  2. Look at the model

    Open the book page. Look at drills 148 and 149.

  3. Drill 148

    Write "Mills and Milligan are good millers." a few times word by word, then half a page of the whole line.

  4. Drill 149

    Then "Nine months after date I promise to pay." the same way. These words are the opening of a promissory note, a written promise to pay a sum of money by a set date; business writers wrote them often.

  5. Gentle check

    Compare the capitals M and N in the sentences with the ones from the warm-up. Did they stay as good?

  6. Finish

    Date the page and write one last careful copy of each sentence.

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