English is a tough language, which makes me thankful sometimes that it's my native tongue. I thought we can go over just some basic English grammar here.
Capitalization: Proper nouns are capitalized. For example, an individual person, place or organization. Titles are also capitalized, as are abbreviations usually. When writing the title of a book or other, most words are capitalized except for conjunctions and other words such as a, the, but, and, or (unless it's the first word in the title, of course).
Ex: Name: Issac Spencer, Place: Georgia, Organization: Fedex or New York Yankees, Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Punctuation: A space goes between words and after punctuation marks. However, don't put a space before a comma (,) or inside a quotation mark ("").
Ex: (let _ mean a space) He_ pushed_the_door_closed._
Periods are used to end a sentence.
Ex: The sky is blue.
Commas are used to indicate a break in a sentence and go along with conjunctions a lot of the time to join sentences. Commas also come before words such as yet and too. They are also used to separate words in a list. A comma can make a sentence mean something entirely different.
Ex: We're eating Grandma. VS We're eating, Grandma. Always remember to put a comma before the name of someone who you or the character is addressing.
Ex: eggs, milk, bread, juice, flour, vanilla, creamer
Dialogue: Punctuation in dialogue can be tricky, but here are the basics. (" ") Quotation marks go at the beginning and end of dialogue. A comma is also used in the structure as well.
Ex: "Close the door on your way out," he commanded. or He told him, "Remember to get milk."
The comma goes inside the quotation mark that is closest to the description of the dialogue. The comma-quotation combo tells that the dialogue is about to start or end.
If the dialogue is an exclamation in need of an exclamation point (!) or a question mark (?), just put the mark at the end of the dialogue like so,
Ex: "Close the door on your way out!" he commanded. or He asked him, "Can you remember to get milk?"
Titles: Titles of completed texts, movies or TV shows are italicized (or underlined if you're writing by hand and struggle with writing italics), while parts of works are put in quotation marks ("")
Ex: A Cask of Amontillado, or "Chapter Twenty-six: We Nuke All the Fish" of Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor
Paragraphs: Start a new paragraph when a new character comes along, a new event happens, a new idea is introduced, the setting changes, a new person is speaking, time moves forward or backward a lot or the "camera" moves (meaning the narrator's attention shifts).
Also, start every paragraph with an indent. When writing in Wattpad, I don't think it allows you to indent (press the tab key). As a result, I personally don't indent for writing on Wattpad. Every paragraph is supposed to be indented though.
If anyone has anything to add, please share! I'll add it here. I hope this is helpful.
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