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Originally Posted by Qingdao
What did you have trouble understanding?
The first sentence "Oh, you mean the 986 body" is shortened because I had made a previous response in haste and didn't think about the OP's question regarding the 986 body.
The next sentence "Not much wrong with it." depicts the condition of the 986 body. "It" in that sentence stands in place for the type of car I'm describing, in this case its a 986.
This sentence might get dicey for a boomer (thats someone who is old). "I cut the skin off of it and saved it for future repair to my DD". "skin" is the outer shell of a monocoque chassis. "It" refers again to the 986 car type. I didn't use a coma to separate the compound sentence, but its not always necessary to do so. The "it" in the second half of the sentence refers to the forementioned skin. "DD" is colloquialism for daily driver.
I'll admit this next sentence is superfluous. "As it so happens the RF fender is on my DD now". I use this sentence to describe how I used the "RF" (that means Right Front) fender. I again use the two characters DD to suplement writing daily driver.
This final sentence is a bit clunky but we can brake it down into one compound sentence, then clarify. "I used the junky fender that was on the boxsterado on the RX986 (for the fuel door), and swapped the blue fender (resprayed) onto my DD." The word "I" is the subject for the first part of the compound. The predicate of that part is "used". "the junky blue fender that was on the boxsterado" could have been better separated with a coma as it describes one thing. "on the RX986" is a preposition. "On" in this last part of the first side of the compound sentence is the preposition describing where the "junky blue fender" was going. "(for the fuel door)" I used paratheses to try to separate this thought from the rest of the sentence for clarity (I failed). The subject for the last half of the compound sentence is an implied "I". In the second half of the compound sentence "swapped" is the verb that is being done to the fender. "onto" is another preposition describing where the blue fender is going. "DD" is used again at the end of the sentence.
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I was enjoying your English 101 lesson until I hit, "...but we can brake it down into one compound sentence...".
That's where you lost me. Nice try.
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