My dream job has always been to be a book editor. But as I did this assignment, I realized that what I really wanted to do was to read books for money, not to edit them. As I mentioned before, I went to 11 different schools before I graduated from high school, and somehow I completely missed learning any grammar at all. The only grammar I know is from all the reading I have done over the years. I have always had a question about how to use an apostrophe in my name to make it possessive. My last name is Jones and I had a vague idea that all I had to do was to add an apostrophe at the end of my name and be done. Over the years I have gotten letters addressed to the Jones's and even to the Joneses, so I was confused. I learned that I had been correct. To make my name possessive it really is Jones'. I made sure to announce my new-found knowledge to my brand-new daughter-in-law so that she would know how to spell her new last name.

Hyphens were a mystery to me as well. I actually thought that they were over used. Notice I used a bunch of hyphens in the previous paragraph. I have never really understood the reason for a dash either. I was really glad to learn about dashes, and now I will not be afraid to use them. So all in all it is really good to be a little bit more knowledgeable.

Now on to editing mistakes. My oldest son works at KSL, so that is the station that I watch for my news. I have always been irritated by the spelling mistakes in the closed captioning that is provided. I have always told my son that I could do a better job at spelling than they do, and they should just hire me. He defends KSL as the news is captioned in real time and the stenographers have very little time in which to caption the news. So that is it for me. I hope I haven't make too many mistakes in my blog.