As it is March and is that month known as National Novel Editing Month, or NaNoEdMo, I will be be revisiting some of my posts on the craft of writing. Today we are looking at that most abused morsel of punctuation, the Hyphen. In my own work I will be looking at each hyphen and deciding if it stays or if it goes. Much of the time, they must go.
Most authors know that a compound word is a combination of two or more words that function as a single unit of meaning. Most of us even know that there are two types of compounds: those written as single words, with no hyphenation and which are called “closed compounds”– such as the word “bedspread,” AND the “hyphenated compounds,” such as “jack-in-the-box” and “self-worth.”
But there is a third group, and they are the bane of my life–those mysterious…
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Thanks, Chris, for sharing this interesting post. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Welcome Suzanne 😀
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Very informative and handy to know even if you do not write books, but instead write a blog as I do. ( sometimes )
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Hugs
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Hugs back Scottie 😀
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Thank you for the reblog, Chris ♥ you’re a kind friend!
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Welcome Connie – Great post 👍😃
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