

| Subject: | Re: Battery Location - Rear Behind RR Taillight |
| From: | mike |
| Date: | Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:21:11 -0700 |
If the list is going to insist on correct grammar can correct spelling be far behind? I'm in trouble. Mike > From: Joseph Angrisani <JOE65@AOL.COM> > Reply-To: JOE65@AOL.COM > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 07:16:02 EDT > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: Battery Location - Rear Behind RR Taillight > > 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 > 84 Westy > 77 Targa >
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