Hello everyone, and welcome to my grammar workshop! In this workshop, I'll go over some grammar rules that I often see get broken and teach you how to not break them, which just means that this is an excuse for me to rant about grammar, lol.

Alright, we're just gonna hop right into it and talk about apostrophes first! If you don't know, apostrophes are these guys -> ‘ and they’re used for a lot of different reasons! The main reasons are contractions and possessive nouns, and if you don't know what those are, I'm about to explain!

Contractions are used to make two words into one word by mashing the two words together, like saying “don't” instead of “do not”. An apostrophe replaces whatever letters get left out in a contraction when you mash the two words together, so in the contraction “don't”, the apostrophe replaces the “o” that gets cut out of the word “not”. In “would've” (a contraction of “would have”), the apostrophe replaces the “ha” in “have”.
A lot of people actually misspell contractions ending in “-'ve”. Instead of writing, for example, “would've” (or “would have”), people write “would of” because that's how it sounds. However, that's improper grammar; “would of” isn't a thing.
Fun fact: “Y'all'd've” is a valid contraction - It's a contraction of “you all would have”! Fun, right?

Possessive nouns are, well, nouns that possess (have) something. (I'm so helpful! ᗡ: ) For example, if you were to say “the dog's ball”, the word “dog's” is a possessive noun because the dog possesses (has) the ball. Notice that we don't say “dogs”, we say “dog's” - the apostrophe makes the noun possessive instead of plural (more on that in a second). The only time you don't use apostrophes for possessive nouns is when using pronouns. If I were to replace the noun “the dog” with the pronoun “it”, I would write “its ball” instead of “the dog's ball”.

One time you shouldn't use an apostrophe is when writing plural nouns. If you want to say that you have more than one idea, you'd say “ideas”, making it a plural noun and showing that there are multiple ideas. You wouldn't say “idea's”, because that would make it a possessive noun instead of a plural noun.

Whew, now that I'm done ranting about apostrophes, let's move on to the next topic: Colons and semicolons. (I just used a colon! Look at me go, I'm using proper grammar in my workshop about proper grammar!)

Colons are these things. -> : They're used for a couple of pretty specific purposes, so you might not see or use them often, but it's important to know how to use them! Two uses of colons are pretty straightforward, you can use a colon to introduce a list (“There are 4 SWC co-hosts this session: Li, Bakie, Kat, and Honey.”) or for emphasis (“After years of debate, we finally realized what the best SWC cabin is: The main cabin.”).
The last use is a bit more tricky (and involves more big words); you can use colons to join together two independent clauses when the second explains the first. (An independent clause is basically a sentence, so you could take it out of the rest of the sentence and it would still make sense.) So, for example, “I didn't have enough time to finish the daily: It ended in ten minutes.” is a good use of a colon because it joins two independent clauses and the second part helps explain the first part.

Semicolons look like this -> ; and they work pretty similarly to the third use of a colon. A semicolon is used to separate independent clauses that are related to each other (for example, “Sleep is more important than SWC; don't pull an all-nighter for cabin wars.”). They can also be used as a sort of master comma if a sentence has too many commas (“I joined SWC as a camper in 2018; now, in 2021, I'm in my first session as a co-leader.”).

Speed round! I'm gonna list a bunch of common homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently) and an example of how to use them! I don't have quite enough space to describe how each one is used, so the best I can do is give examples.

• Your (“I like your dog”) and you're (“You're very pretty”)
  
• There (“My house is over there”), their (“Someone dropped their wallet”), and they're (“They're” is a contraction of “they are” - “They're my best friend”)
  
• To (“I'm going to the store”), too (“I like SWC too!”), and two (“There are two Frozen movies”)
  
• Its (“The dog likes its ball”) and it's (“It's” is a contraction of “it is” - “I like SWC, it's fun!”)
  
• Peek (“Peek around the corner”), peak (“The peak of their fame”), piqué (“That piquéd my interest”)

I hope you took notes, onto the next part!

This is my favorite part, though it's also the shortest: Interrobangs! You're probably never heard of interrobangs before, and they're not something you need to use, but they're my favorite punctuation mark. They look like this -> ‽ and they function as a combination question mark and exclamation point. You can easily say ?! if you want to express both a question mark and exclamation point at the same time, but I just think that interrobangs are more fun. (:

And that concludes my grammar rant! I hope you enjoyed reading me nerding out, and I hope that this was somehow helpful to you. Good luck writing and have a great SWC ᗡ:

(Edit/Side note: If you're also a grammar nerd, here's a website all about punctuation: https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/index.html Have fun (; )

it is now my goal to use “Y'all'd've” in a story

apart-- wrote:

it is now my goal to use “Y'all'd've” in a story

what were you doing out there? y'all'd've had something bad happen to you!

apart-- wrote:

it is now my goal to use “Y'all'd've” in a story

please do, that would be so awesome-

Hey, I did not understand what we're supposed to write, are we supposed to Write a Paragraph using that Punctuation mark a lot or something?

Sugarvamp109 wrote:

Hey, I did not understand what we're supposed to write, are we supposed to Write a Paragraph using that Punctuation mark a lot or something?

write a paragraph that is narrated from the perspective of that punctuation mark

Daily for fan-fi:
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Goose.

Oh dear Goose.

WILL YOU PLEASE STOP USING ME INCORRECTLY. PLEASE.

Yeah, that was a bit harsh. The name's Apostrophe by the way. That's right, the only and only apostrophe. Also known as “the one punctuation mark that Goose doesn't know how to use.”.

Life is hard for me. Just the other day Goose was writing a short story. They wanted to write “the lady's purse.”

Pretty simple, right?

WRONG.

Instead, that fool decided to write “the ladys purse.”

THEY SPELT LADIES WROND AND PLUS, THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO USE ME.

That just triggered my so much. I need to punch something to calm myself. I'll ask Period later once I'm done writing this.

The nerve of this girl. Using me like I'm a trash can. Absolutely horrible. If you don't believe me, then fine, I don't care. To anyone that does trust me, thank you. Please take me away from this grammar monster as soon as possible.

I get jealous of Comma a lot. Goose uses her the most. At the end of the day, she always comes up to my face saying how great she is. PUH-LEASE. Comma is so annoying, I wouldn't mind if someone could…you know what, never mind.

Semi-colon gets used the least. I think Goose is scared of using him because they don't know how. Well, Semi-colon doesn't really care anyways.

Period is the most intelligent punctuation mark. She was created first, so she knows a lot about everything. Goose likes using her.

Colon is the cool one and Semi-colon's sister. Goose doesn't use her that much, but enough for her to get noticed. Colon is also my best friend.

Then there's Interrobang. No one really knows who they are. They're the weird person around here. I never understand what they say.

Shoot, I'm getting off topic. What was I talking about again? Oh yeah. Goose the monster.

I would write more but Colon wants us to meet at the pizza parlor today and I've got to get going. She gets angry when I'm late.

Well, this was a good rant. Apostrophe signing off.

interrobangs are very fun!

Yass ty pie !! GO Go HORROOOOR

apart-- wrote:

it is now my goal to use “Y'all'd've” in a story

Yes. You must.

Here we go again; Wae's using me, yes, colon again! I have nothing against her as she uses me correctly most of the time, but she has a habit of using me a tad bit too much for my liking! I mean, semicolon, my poor cousin is being neglected by her. I'm pretty sure that Wae is unsure on how to use him, but either way, my favorite cousin is being neglected by her! Oh the other hand, I am pretty glad that she grew and matured out of her exclamation point period in which she used exclamation points all the time as if her life relied on it, but she also does use question mark a bit too frequently for my tastes. Now let's see, how about period? Well, period is a basic building block in writing, so I can't put the blame on them for being used so much. However, em dash, I have a bone to pick with you. You think that you're so great because Wae searches up “dash copy and paste” just to paste you into her writing. Well guess what? It's pretty much only you who can't be found on Wae's default laptop keyboard, so I guess that you didn't make it. Ha. Now for the worst of them: the comma. You have already been used FIFTEEN times before this sentence! That is so unfair! And even worse, comma is ALSO a default keyboard symbol like me, meaning that Wae doesn't have to hold shift to use her. She's nothing like intelligent period who never is a braggart about being used frequently in Wae's writing. That being said, I just realized that Wae's only used me once in this paragraph; or not! Wae, if you're seeing this, please use me less frequently!
-colon

(311 words)

y'all'd've finished the weekly by now if you actually stopped procrastinating /lh /j

Can I do the daily here itself? Imma do that.


Pie's workshop on grammar has been very helpful. And this story is from the POV of a comma.

Life at the Storybook Factory has been very exciting for me and my fellow commas. We all hang out at the Punctuation Café with our siblings; the full stops and the semicolons. Everyday the Professor walks in and turns on the Sentence Maker 5000. Whenever the Professor needs a comma, like right over there, after the word comma and again after the word there; he clicks the comma key, which has been fused with the less than key. After he presses it, a huge claw comes down, picks out a comma and puts it in the place where he's writing. But one day he brought a classroom of kids in for the ‘field trip’ he was typing an email about. One of my fellow commas told me so. I can't wait to go out into the open, and be one of the commas. But then, my lucky day arrived, or so I thought. A little girl pressed the comma key, and I got dropped between the word bird and the letter s. Bird,s‽ She mistook me for one of those nasty, mean, cruel, evil, wicked, horrid, deadly, horrifying APOSTROPHES!! I forgot to mention, apostrophes are our evil twins. But luckily the professor saved the day. He taught her the difference between us, the beautiful commas, and those evil apostrophes. And she said sorry. Professor summoned General Backspace from outer space and he brought me back to the café. That was a close one. Phew.. I told this to all the other punctuation signs, and they all agreed to help put an end to punctuation misuse. Well, except for Question Mark. He forgot the story in less than a millisecond. But he's a question mark. I used the power of Interrobangius Staricus, one of the wise, magical interrobangs to go into someone's dream. That someone just happened to be called Pie or something. I forgot her name. Anyway, we warned her, and she must've made this after the warning. I'm not sure. Now, after her warning, everyone were using us properly again! To some extent, on Scratch.

We did something like this daily in school in primary grade ヾ(•ω•`)o

zparkly wrote:

y'all'd've finished the weekly by now if you actually stopped procrastinating /lh /j

0-0

Skye.

Hello‽ Can you hear me‽

Probably not. After all, I’m just a normal comma. Anyways, life is hard for me. Sure, I get used a lot by Skye, but often, I’m neglected and replaced by Colon.

THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE!!!

Skye was writing a story and she put “Sam: hand me that sausage over there.”
I know that would sound normal if she were writing a script, but no. This is just regular dialogue of the character asking Sam for a sausage! I definitely should have been used there! Stupid Colon. Everytime he gets used he struts over and brags to everyone how good he is, even though he isn’t used as much as Period or Apostrophe. Now, let’s move on to some of the other punctuation marks….

Like you, exclamation mark! You’ve been used far too many times in this letter, and you’re never misused! Why is it so unfair for the rest of us? Same with you, question mark! You’ve been used a lot here too. Apostrophe hasn’t been used a lot here, but she’s used all the time in Skye’s stories! She’s friends with that insufferable Colon though, so I don’t interact with her.

Then there’s my friend, Period. She’s the most used punctuation and she never brags! She’s very friendly. She’s made friends with almost every other punctuation mark! Well, except for the Interrobangs. They’re the loners and they don’t want anyone around them. They even snapped at Period when she tried to make friends with them! Talk about mean.

Oh goddess, I’m really getting off topic. Anyways, back to ranting about how annoying Colon is. He’s always trying to steal my spotlight! One time, when Skye finally replaced a colon with me and made the sentence correct, colon reprogrammed the Correct-O-Matic to say that colon was needed there instead! Anyways, Skye, please try to use me correctly, and don’t be fooled by Colon. He just wants to make trouble.

Signing off,
Comma

apart-- wrote:

it is now my goal to use “Y'all'd've” in a story

I say y'all'd've all the time irl

*Note: I chose to do both a colon and semicolon because I use them both quite frequently. Plus, I thought that it would be fun to play around with the dynamic and interaction between the two. Anything italicized is Semicolon, and the regular font is Colon.

In a world of independent clauses, chaos thrives. Any type of variation is nonexistent; commas are strung along the margins of a paper for miles. But there is one hero who can save the people from this unfortunate lifestyle: it’s none other than the one, the only, Co-
Colon! You’re taking too long with the introduction; besides, all of these theatrics are unnecessary.
Fine! I’d like to see you do better.
Fine! Hello everyone! My name is Semicolon, and this is my twin: Colon. (Forewarning, he is the epitome of a nuisance.) Though we may look similar, I can assure you that we each hold our own individual positions in this world of punctuation.
Alright, that was pretty good (except for the nuisance part).
Let’s begin, shall we?
Ok. So, basically, I’m colon, and I look like this: :. See what I did there?
Sigh . . .
I’ve got many roles in this “world of punctuation”: I introduce a list, separate independent clauses when the second explains the first, and put emphasis on a word. And those are only my grammatical uses! I’m pretty cool; do I get a round of applause or what?
No.
Buzzkill.
Though my skills may not be as extensive as Colon’s, my role is still crucial. For the most part, I separate independent clauses by replacing coordinating conjunctions. This can prove very useful for writers who use many commas; I create some variation and emphasis that other punctuation marks cannot. And I don’t want to point fingers, but remember those writers I was speaking about? Kilee is guilty as charged.
You aren’t wrong there. And while we’re at it, I would also like to charge Kilee with the neglect of a punctuation mark: me. Not only does she ignore me, but the aggression she exhibits is downright despicable!
What are you talking about! She uses you quite often, and what aggression? Seriously, I don’t think that I’ve ever heard a more ridiculous claim come from your mouth, which is saying a lot.
Dude, can’t you just play along with the drama for once?
Not when it’s so outrageous. Besides, we’ve got to get going. Kilee said something about the “weekly” earlier, whatever that is. I’m pretty confident that means we’ll be busy all day.
Alright. But not until I get my round of applause.
There is no way I’m doing that.
Then I guess we’ll be here a while until someone does.

stellae- wrote:

*Note: I chose to do both a colon and semicolon because I use them both quite frequently. Plus, I thought that it would be fun to play around with the dynamic and interaction between the two. Anything italicized is Semicolon, and the regular font is Colon.

In a world of independent clauses, chaos thrives. Any type of variation is nonexistent; commas are strung along the margins of a paper for miles. But there is one hero who can save the people from this unfortunate lifestyle: it’s none other than the one, the only, Co-
Colon! You’re taking too long with the introduction; besides, all of these theatrics are unnecessary.
Fine! I’d like to see you do better.
Fine! Hello everyone! My name is Semicolon, and this is my twin: Colon. (Forewarning, he is the epitome of a nuisance.) Though we may look similar, I can assure you that we each hold our own individual positions in this world of punctuation.
Alright, that was pretty good (except for the nuisance part).
Let’s begin, shall we?
Ok. So, basically, I’m colon, and I look like this: :. See what I did there?
Sigh . . .
I’ve got many roles in this “world of punctuation”: I introduce a list, separate independent clauses when the second explains the first, and put emphasis on a word. And those are only my grammatical uses! I’m pretty cool; do I get a round of applause or what?
No.
Buzzkill.
Though my skills may not be as extensive as Colon’s, my role is still crucial. For the most part, I separate independent clauses by replacing coordinating conjunctions. This can prove very useful for writers who use many commas; I create some variation and emphasis that other punctuation marks cannot. And I don’t want to point fingers, but remember those writers I was speaking about? Kilee is guilty as charged.
You aren’t wrong there. And while we’re at it, I would also like to charge Kilee with the neglect of a punctuation mark: me. Not only does she ignore me, but the aggression she exhibits is downright despicable!
What are you talking about! She uses you quite often, and what aggression? Seriously, I don’t think that I’ve ever heard a more ridiculous claim come from your mouth, which is saying a lot.
Dude, can’t you just play along with the drama for once?
Not when it’s so outrageous. Besides, we’ve got to get going. Kilee said something about the “weekly” earlier, whatever that is. I’m pretty confident that means we’ll be busy all day.
Alright. But not until I get my round of applause.
There is no way I’m doing that.
Then I guess we’ll be here a while until someone does.

This is nice :00 I did semicolon and colon too!

ppppie wrote:

Hello everyone, and welcome to my grammar workshop! In this workshop, I'll go over some grammar rules that I often see get broken and teach you how to not break them, which just means that this is an excuse for me to rant about grammar, lol.

Alright, we're just gonna hop right into it and talk about apostrophes first! If you don't know, apostrophes are these guys -> ‘ and they’re used for a lot of different reasons! The main reasons are contractions and possessive nouns, and if you don't know what those are, I'm about to explain!

Contractions are used to make two words into one word by mashing the two words together, like saying “don't” instead of “do not”. An apostrophe replaces whatever letters get left out in a contraction when you mash the two words together, so in the contraction “don't”, the apostrophe replaces the “o” that gets cut out of the word “not”. In “would've” (a contraction of “would have”), the apostrophe replaces the “ha” in “have”.
A lot of people actually misspell contractions ending in “-'ve”. Instead of writing, for example, “would've” (or “would have”), people write “would of” because that's how it sounds. However, that's improper grammar; “would of” isn't a thing.
Fun fact: “Y'all'd've” is a valid contraction - It's a contraction of “you all would have”! Fun, right?

Possessive nouns are, well, nouns that possess (have) something. (I'm so helpful! ᗡ: ) For example, if you were to say “the dog's ball”, the word “dog's” is a possessive noun because the dog possesses (has) the ball. Notice that we don't say “dogs”, we say “dog's” - the apostrophe makes the noun possessive instead of plural (more on that in a second). The only time you don't use apostrophes for possessive nouns is when using pronouns. If I were to replace the noun “the dog” with the pronoun “it”, I would write “its ball” instead of “the dog's ball”.

One time you shouldn't use an apostrophe is when writing plural nouns. If you want to say that you have more than one idea, you'd say “ideas”, making it a plural noun and showing that there are multiple ideas. You wouldn't say “idea's”, because that would make it a possessive noun instead of a plural noun.

Whew, now that I'm done ranting about apostrophes, let's move on to the next topic: Colons and semicolons. (I just used a colon! Look at me go, I'm using proper grammar in my workshop about proper grammar!)

Colons are these things. -> : They're used for a couple of pretty specific purposes, so you might not see or use them often, but it's important to know how to use them! Two uses of colons are pretty straightforward, you can use a colon to introduce a list (“There are 4 SWC co-hosts this session: Li, Bakie, Kat, and Honey.”) or for emphasis (“After years of debate, we finally realized what the best SWC cabin is: The main cabin.”).
The last use is a bit more tricky (and involves more big words); you can use colons to join together two independent clauses when the second explains the first. (An independent clause is basically a sentence, so you could take it out of the rest of the sentence and it would still make sense.) So, for example, “I didn't have enough time to finish the daily: It ended in ten minutes.” is a good use of a colon because it joins two independent clauses and the second part helps explain the first part.

Semicolons look like this -> ; and they work pretty similarly to the third use of a colon. A semicolon is used to separate independent clauses that are related to each other (for example, “Sleep is more important than SWC; don't pull an all-nighter for cabin wars.”). They can also be used as a sort of master comma if a sentence has too many commas (“I joined SWC as a camper in 2018; now, in 2021, I'm in my first session as a co-leader.”).

Speed round! I'm gonna list a bunch of common homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently) and an example of how to use them! I don't have quite enough space to describe how each one is used, so the best I can do is give examples.

• Your (“I like your dog”) and you're (“You're very pretty”)
  
• There (“My house is over there”), their (“Someone dropped their wallet”), and they're (“They're” is a contraction of “they are” - “They're my best friend”)
  
• To (“I'm going to the store”), too (“I like SWC too!”), and two (“There are two Frozen movies”)
  
• Its (“The dog likes its ball”) and it's (“It's” is a contraction of “it is” - “I like SWC, it's fun!”)
  
• Peek (“Peek around the corner”), peak (“The peak of their fame”), piqué (“That piquéd my interest”)

I hope you took notes, onto the next part!

This is my favorite part, though it's also the shortest: Interrobangs! You're probably never heard of interrobangs before, and they're not something you need to use, but they're my favorite punctuation mark. They look like this -> ‽ and they function as a combination question mark and exclamation point. You can easily say ?! if you want to express both a question mark and exclamation point at the same time, but I just think that interrobangs are more fun. (:

And that concludes my grammar rant! I hope you enjoyed reading me nerding out, and I hope that this was somehow helpful to you. Good luck writing and have a great SWC ᗡ:

(Edit/Side note: If you're also a grammar nerd, here's a website all about punctuation: https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/index.html Have fun (; )

Why? A story about ?
By GalaxyWolfStar
Why do I always have to be used in questions? I wish I could be used in normal sentences! Wait, why am I worrying about that? I’m just another punctuation mark, for people to use. I’m like, just a question mark. Why should anybody care for me? I’m just an ordinary punctuation mark, so why are you even reading this? I REPEAT, WHY ARE YOU EVEN READING THIS!?!?! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
*breaks computer screen and shuts down computer*
*person gets computer fixed*
*in real life now*
“What just happened? I was just writing a question mark and my computer just broke! Uhh, at least I went to the apple store and got it fixed. Now to continue my scratch writing camp daily!”
*back to question mark point of view*
-AAAAAAAA wait-this document is actually pretty good! But why can’t I be used in sentences like the ones exclamation point is used in? I think I’m depressed. Welp, time to print myself on a document “loyally” for this human that is typing. *sigh* Well, hello, friend! I haven’t seen you in a long time, right?
AAAYesAAA, AAAyouAAA AAAhaven’tAAA!
You are being very A-ish today, A!
AAAIAAA AAAknowAAA, AAArightAAA?
Usually you only do 1 A, and 2 As when you’re excited! Haha…you must be really hyper today.
AAAYepAAA! AAAOopAAA, AAAgottaAAA AAAgoAAA! AAAI’veAAA AAAgottaAAA AAAprintAAA AAAmyselfAAA AAAontoAAA AAAtheAAA AAAdocumentAAA AAAagainAAA! AAAByeeeeeeeeeeeeeeAAAAAAAAA
See ya later! Wow, now that A’s gone, I’m actually kinda glad that I am a question mark. Why do other letters always say their name in their words? It’s a long story, I think. But why am I a question mark? I’m gonna cry now!
*Question mark gets a message to print himself onto a document*
*Question mark is too busy being depressed*
*That is the reason sometimes the keys on a computer keyboard sometimes don’t work, because they’re too busy being depressed*
*I should treat my right arrow key thingy better*
Question mark suddenly becomes happy and goes to print themself to the document for some reason.
The end
Is this a good story or is this bad?


this is my story. I don't know how to use discussion so yeah