Date:         Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:33:50 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET>
Subject:      Re: Battery Location - Rear Behind RR Taillight
Comments: To: JOE65@AOL.COM
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Joe,

You are, of course, correct, and I apologize for my typo.

My point still valid.  On a vehicle, front is always toward the front of the vehicle, right is
always the side to the driver's right when he is sitting behind the wheel, etc.  If we forget
that, discussions can get confusing.  The front cylinder on the left side should meen the same
to everyone.

Oh, and for the record, English has lots of rules of punctuation and grammar.  For example,
periods and commas always go inside quotation marks.

In your grammar lesson, you wrote:  "I went out and looked".

I'm sure you meant to type:  "I went out and looked."

Thanks,

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Angrisani" <JOE65@AOL.COM>
>
> In a message dated 8/20/02 11:00:15 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> freeholder@STARBAND.NET writes:
>
> << I went out and look.  Sure enough, the space behind my passenger taillight
> is outside the
>  sheetmetal and extends all the way to the horizon.  Did you mean in front of
> the passenger
>  taillight? >>
>
> Bill,
>
> Just so you know, there are *rules* we follow in using the English language.
>
> "Went" is past tense.  "Look" is present tense.  The proper sentence would
> have been, "I went out and looked".  "I will go out and look" is correct
> also, but not in your paragraph because you are refering to something you did
> before you did your typing.
>
> Joe in CO