Mid-week Musings

I wrote an entire post about sending help to the states in the South . . . and then I accidentally deleted it.  Sigh!  (It is not the first time I have done that.)

Please, please do not forget the six states who are recovering from devastating tornado damage.  Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky will use whatever help you are able to send them. 

I also wrote a little about the royal wedding and how sweet Marcus was to watch it with me . . . but that also got deleted with the post mentioned above.

When I accidentally delete posts, it makes me wonder why I don't just stick to pen-and-paper journaling.

Here is a random English lesson:  Hyphens should be used within compound modifiers.  What is a compound modifier?  Any combination of words that function as an adjective or adverb.  Above, the compound modifier is pen-and-paper.  I am using the words, pen and paper, to describe the type of journaling in the sentence.  Yes, the words are nouns, but they are functioning as a compound modifier.  Here is an easier way to look at it:

Thank you for the card.  (Here, the word thank is functioning as a verb and the recipient of the action is the word you.  You functions as a noun and the direct object.  (For is a preposition and card is the object of the preposition, if you care, but I doubt that you do.  The is an adjective.

Thank-you cards are on sale.  (Here, thank-you is functioning as a compound modifier and thus uses a hyphen!  Thank-you is describing the type of cards.  No one is actually being thanked.) 

Yay!  Don't you feel smart?  In an effort to get over my weird intelligence inferiority complex, I am going to be inserting some "smarticles" into these posts.  Maybe I will eventually write a post explaining my weird intelligence inferiority complex . . . but until then, enjoy the eighth grade English lessons.  :)