One day in the land of Rammarg, Kesare is floating along on his tree branch, exploring the trail, when he comes across a man fell over in the middle of the trail. Kesare goes to see what’s wrong.

As Kesare gets over to the man, in a panic he asks him a series of questions. “Oh dear, are you alright? Whom did this to you? What has affected you? Was it the rocks in the path behind us making you trip over them on accident then were left in the trail here to mourn your fall? Those were allot of rocks. I had trouble walking over them myself. Or when you got up. You tripped and fell. Here I’ll help you up.”

When Kesare helped the man to his feet, he heard a loud crack from behind. He turned around to see a magical creature before him, who exclaimed, “I am the God of Grammar, and I have been sent here to fix an atrocious amount of grammatical mistakes that were made over the course of just 15 seconds! Who was it that committed this foul crime!”

“Well Koala, you obviously don’t know how to use correct grammar, so I, THE GOD OF GRAMMAR, must teach you my ways.” exclaimed the Grammar God. Kesare, having nothing else to do, decided to come along and learn the ways of grammar.

After walking a short distance, they came to their first stop. “Your first lesson shall be about commas.” said the Grammar God as he summoned a comma person. “This is Comma, he is a punctuation pal. He does a variety of things and can fix many of the mistakes you made. But first, you must learn what an independent clause is.”

"An independent clause is a phrase that can stand alone. Such as 'I like graham crackers.'" explained Grammar God.

"Many mistakes could be made when connecting independent clauses related to each other, which is how you get run-on sentences and sentence fragments."

Inpenendent Clause

Run-on Sentences

"When you have two or more independent clauses joined without proper punctuation, you have yourself a run-on sentence. To fix this you need to a add a comma and a conjunction between two clauses." explained Comma, "An example is 'It is getting late we cannot reach town before dark,' which is a run-on sentence. It should be 'It is getting late, so we cannot reach the town before dark.'"

"Another mistake I can fix is the sentence fragment. These are 'sentences' that lack independent clauses." said Comma, "An example is 'When I left my tree. I slipped and fell.' You can fix this by joining the two phrases with a comma. The correct form is, 'When I left the tree, I slipped and fell.'" Kesare thought these rules were pretty simple, and went along with it.

Sentence Fragments

Kesare, having grown stronger with the force of grammar, was able to continue on his way on the path to greatness. "Good luck on your journey, young Koala!" exclaimed Comma as Kesare followed the Grammar God on his way to the next lesson.

After quite a hike, they reached their next point. "Your next lesson will be on semicolons, dashes, and hyphens, punctuation marks you might need ion the future." said Grammar God as he summoned three punctuation pals. "These are Semicolon, Dash, and Hyphen, they will guide you on this quest."

"Hello young stranger, I am Semicolon, and I separate two closely related independent clauses. Such as 'Using a semicolon isn't hard; I once saw a gorilla do it.'" explained semicolon. "See it's easy, but one thing you should never do is put me next to a conjunction. One burned down my house as a child, and now I hate them all." Kesare nodded along, and slowly backed away towards the next punctuation pal.

Semicolons

"Why hello there feller! I am Dash, I'm used for a lot of stuff. I can emphasize a thing at the beginning or end of a sentence, (After a long time of exploration, the Koala is finally ready to go back to the land he was born‒New York..). I can also show material in the middle of a sentence, (Bobbert‒with a fierce look on his face‒went out to the battle.)." said Dash in a rush. "Just a note that dashes are almost never required by grammar law." added Grammar God. Dash looked down in shame as Kesare moved on.

Dashes

"Hey man, I'm Hyphen, and don't you dare confuse me with dash, we're completely different. I'm used to join two words or word parts, such as co-operate, run-down, and son-in-law." explained Hyphen. Kesare‒having met with all three punctuation pals‒followed Grammar God to the last lesson.

Hyphen

Having reached their final destination, the Grammar God introduced his last lesson to Kesare. "Our last lesson must be on the dreaded USAGE! Usage is using the proper word in a sentence. I will be the one teaching this subject so let's get started."

"First off, you must learn the difference between First off, you must learn the difference between Affect and Effect. Say there were two people, verb and noun, and verb pushes noun off a cliff. Verb affected Noun by pushing him, and the effect was Noun falling off a cliff." explained Grammar God.

Affect vs. Effect

Verb

Noun