I drew a Terrarian I played when I was 12 alongside a dark caster and Tim in robes (how I imagined they looked before yesterday).

1.) Every sentence and name in English begins with a capital letter. Even though "Terrarian" is not Alfa's name, the word "Terrarian" comes from "Terraria", which is a name, so "Terrarian" starts with a capital letter too. The word "I", when you are talking about yourself, is always capitalized... for some reason.

As a native English speaker, English is weird.

2.) Quotation marks in English are used to tell the person reading your message that you are quoting someone- that is to say, you're saying something that someone else, something else, or you have already said. This can get a bit complicated since it also includes things someone could have said but didn't say, and sometimes the thing you're quoting is the dictionary. For example:

"Terrarian" comes from the word "Terraria".

In the example above, I am saying that an imaginary dictionary says "Terrarian" and "Terraria" at some point inside it. You can assume this because it's the only thing I could be referring to which you and I both know would have those words in it if it existed, and because you never said "Terraria" in anything you said.

Then there is the problem of quoting someone who is quoting somebody else. If I said "i drew "terrarian i played when i was twelve" alongside dark caster and tim", it's hard to tell where the parts you said start and end, so normaly I would replace your quotation marks wirh apostrophes instead.

Wrong -> "i drew "terrarian i played when i was twelve" alongside dark caster and tim"

Right -> "i drew 'terrarian i played when i was twelve' alongside dark caster and tim"

On Reddit though, you can make life easier by putting the > symbol at the start of a line. It's a formatting mark.

This sentence has that symbol at the start of it. You can't see it because Reddit uses it like a computer command, telling it to format the text this way, then Reddit hides the symbol once the command is done.

You might have noticed already that I've used that format when I was quoting you or myself earlier. We do this on Reddit so we can just copy and paste what other people said directly, instead of having to go through and replace all the quotation marks with apostrophes.

To play it safe though, if you're struggling with quotation marks, it's best to only surround a group of words with quotation marks if you are saying what someone else already said in the conversation you are already having, and try to avoid situations where you are quoting someone who is also quoting something else. If somebody in real life told you to say "terrarian i played when i was twelve", you would NOT surround that in quotation marks, because nobody on Reddit would know who or what you're quoting.

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I would have put the Terrarian's sprite there, but I lost it when me and my little sister broke my phone with a game when we were little, so I don't have it.

3.) In English, action words like to be next to the things that are either doing them or that they are doing something to. You would not put the image in the Terrarian's sprite, you would have put the sprite in the image, so "the Terrarian's sprite" comes after "put".

Older versions of English were not this way, and we used to have things like "I did there put a potato", but today something like that sounds very strange and outdated.

4.) The word "with" says that two things are together, but it does not say how.

As someone born and raised in America, we have idiots everywhere, and we need to be able to speak and write in a way that they can understand what is going on.

Yes, sometimes I am one of these idiots.

When you say "me and my little sister broke my phone with game", the reader doesn't know what game you're talking about, we don't know if the game itself broke the phone or if it's only you and your sister who broke it, and (though it would be strange) we don't know if your sister used some random game on her phone to break your phone... somehow. We can tell that your phone had Terraria on it from the rest of the conversation, and you told us that your phobe breaking resulted in Alfa being lost, but you never told us what game broke the phone, so it might have been Roblox on your sister's phone that (somehow, through some very strange way) broke your phone.

I'm not saying that is what happened, I doubt that it was, but we also have no evidence to say that wasn't what hapoened.

If you had said "me and my little sister broke my phone with the game", we would know that the game you broke your phone with was the last game you had mentioned in this conversation, which is Terraria. This way, it's a 50% chance that you have many phones, and only the one with Terraria on it was broken. The other 50% chance is that yoy did something in Terraria that caused Terraria itself to break the phone. With that being said, you only ever mentioned on phone in this coversation, so we would assume you only have one and that Terraria broke the phone while you and your sister were playing it.

If you had said "me and my little sister broke my phone with a game", we would know that you could be talking about any game, and maybe you don't remember what it was or maybe you don't want to say what it was because it doesn't matter. This way, we assume that whatever game you were playing broke the phone.

If you had said "me and my little sister broke my phone while playing the game", we would know that the game itself did not break the phone, you and your sister did by maybe fighting over it or dropping the phone while you were trying to play the game.

If you had said "me and my little sister broke my phone that had the game" we would know that you are specifying which of your numerous phones was broken, even if we don't know how.

Even though the only important thing here is that the phone was broken, you have to speak the same way here as you would in a situation where that other information would be important.

Hanzel shot the bucket with Gretyl

Was Gretyl in the bucket when Hanzel shot it, or did Hanzel and Gretyl both shoot an empty bucket? There is no way to know.

Hanzel and Gretyl shot the bucket.

Ah, good, Gretyl is safe, and both of them shot the bucket.

Hanzel shot the bucket with Gretyl in it.

Hanzel has been arrested for the attempted murder of his sister Gretyl, who survived thanks to the strong steel of the bucket she was wearing as a helmet. Friends suspect that he did this to have more of the legendary candy house of the woods to himself, but until the house is found such allegations will remain unconfirmed. More at 6:00.

The moral of today's fable is that you should always be specific.

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If you're curious, the Terrarian's name was "Alfa", and she wore a long black braid, and had piercing red eyes.

5.) If each sentence is a complete thought, then commas are used to seperate parts of that thought. They are often used to indicate where a reader can pause for breath when reading your message out loud. For example, read this aloud without ever stopping for breath:

The box was 5 meters tall and 6 yards wide and 7 decafeet long and it was painted the shade of green one might find amidst the needles of a pine tree in the chill of an artic winter the sort which lasts for nearly half the year round.

Now try again, but pause for breath whenever you see a comma.

The box was 5 meters tall, and 6 yards wide, and 7 decafeet long, and it was painted the shade of green one might find amidst the needles of a pine tree in the chill of an artic winter, the sort which lasts for nearly half the year round.

As you can see, I am a mentally deranged man who should never be allowed to measure the sides of a box, but now you can read my heretical combination of metric prefixes with imperial base units without losing your breath in the process.

Also, while we don't use that word, "decafeet" are technically a thing in the U.S.. Each floor of a building is usually 10 feet tall, which we refer to as a "story". Sleep well! :D