Why I got a fetal error of not a git repository when I checked for the status of my repo

I tried to run this command in my project directory
$ git status
but I got an error message indicating that
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

I have also made sure that I am in the right directory by using ‘pwd’ but it didn’t work.
Please help me in this I am using github for the first time.

>Solution :

Try running this command as you may have forgotten to initialize the repository as a Git repository

git init