English Assignment #1<br/>
September 16, 2010<br/>
Emma Adlakha<br/>

1.	When the author uses the word “load”, s/he refers to the space taken up by the amount of cargo that the vans carry.<br/>

When the author uses the word “merchandise”, s/he refers to the cargo or the stuff that the vans are carrying.<br/>

When the author uses the word “dirt”, s/he refers to the matter or mess left behind from the merchandise in the vans and from loading and unloading the vans.<br/> 

2.	The square brackets mean that you have changed a quotation to make it fit in a sentence.<br/> Source:  “the little brown essential handbook for writers” Third Canadian Edition, By Jane E. Aaron and Elaine Bander.<br/>

3.	“...” means that you are omitting a part of a quotation.<br/> 


4.	I speculate that someone involved with maintaining transporting vans might have written this text. <br/>

5.	I speculate that the people the author was working with, maybe the drivers of the vans and the cleaners of the vans, were expected to read this text.<br/>


6.	The text is about explaining the maintenance of the vans that are being used to transport certain merchandise. <br/>