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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
>