Project/WFW: Apprentice Tutorials

 ❅ Apprentice   Tutorials ❅





 By Mistleheart



Project/WFW: Apprentice Tutorials are dedicated to the apprentices of Project Warriors: Fanfiction Wikia, rather known as Project/WFW or just WFW. Apprentice tutorials are for explaining widespread grammar errors most beginners have. A FAQ will be provided at the bottom of the page.

How to Read

A large header, like the one below [which says Grammar Issues] are the big categories. They are the usual way to divide the tutorials into parts. Each set of letters in pale sky blue, as defined above, are secondary headers for the apprentice tutorials. They group together small categories, such as errors in punctuation. Underneath these light blue headings are usually slanted sentences that have some sort of mistake in them. Below those, in regular style, will be explanations for these errors and how to write them correctly.

Grammar Issues
These are examples common errors found in many fanfictions. Most of these grammar issues are quite insignificant, so the largest errors are listed at the top, the smaller ones at the bottom.

Punctuation Errors
" This hawk is a bad omen to the Clan" announced Shimmerheart, the younger medicine cat of ShadowClan.

This is a sentence with a seemingly minor punctuation mistake; however, it can affect the whole story. A comma is supposed to have be placed before the last quotation mark in the dialogue; however, no comma, or, was put there. Note that if followed by the word 'said', 'asked', 'exclaimed', etc., there is supposed to be a comma, but if none of those precedes the dialogue, a period should be in the comma's place. Other punctuation marks, such as the exclamation mark [!], or three periods [...] either of these may apply, whether it follows with a 'said' or an action. Thus, the correct way to write this sentence is, "  This hawk is a bad omen to the Clan," announced Shimmerheart, the younger medicine cat of ShadowClan, including the comma.

The entire forest was eerie, deadly silent.The wind was still,and mist floated unmoving,dark grey in the moonlight.

This certain mistake occurs to everyone at some point, and is still common. With the period [.], a space must follow. This applies to most other punctuation marks, such as the comma, the exclamation mark, etc. However, many people do not add a space after some punctuation, including the ellipses [...]