A marker is a ring placed on a knitting needle between two stitches to remind the knitting that something is supposed to happen there.
slip marker just means move your marker from your left needle to your right needle. a marker just sits on the needle and shows the place, its not part of the knitting and will be removed when you have finished.
It means 'slip marker', as when knitting and you come to the marker, you move it from the left needle to the right, to keep your place
That probably means, "knit to marker."
M means 'marker'. This is normally a small circle of plastic or metal or contrast yarn (I use paper clips or safety pins) hooked on the needle between specific stitches. For example, if you were knitting a lace pattern and wanted to 'mark' each pattern repeat or to 'mark' where a thumb will be knit on a glove or mitten. PM means 'pass marker' by moving the marker from one needle to the other when you get to it after knitting the stitches before it.
A marked stitch is a stitch where you have placed a knitting marker. A pattern may tell you to place a marker at a certain stitch, and to do some particular thing in a subsequent row when you come to that marked stitch.
Knit to the 1st stitch before the marker.
i think it means 'slip marker' which means take the marker from the left hand needle and put it on the right hand needle
Do not use a closed stitch marker, those are for knitting. A crochet stitch marker looks like a giant safety pin, or you can use a regular safety pin. Simply insert the pin into the stitch in the same place you would insert your hook to make a stitch, and close it. When you get to that stitch again, take the pin out and move it up to the next row.
Once you understand how the knitting machine operates, its capabilities and limitations, with practice, a knitting machine becomes easy to use.
A "marker" is a ring that you put on your knitting needle to mark where a pattern begins. When there is a special set of stitches, such as a cable or a popcorn pattern, you put a small marker on the needle to remind yourself where the pattern begins and ends. These markers can be anything that reminds you--a plastic ring, a different color loop of yarn, or thread on your needle. It should be loose enough to simply transfer from one needle to another. Since it is just a "place holder", you don't do anything with it except move it from one needle to another, it is a "slip" from one place to another. So when the pattern says slip marker, it simply means to move the marker from one needle to another and continue knitting.
Grandma fell asleep while knitting.