I type as I was taught at school to use punctuation marks.
Interesting. I was always taught that if a sentence ends with a question mark or exclamation point, then you should not add a period as well. I wonder if this is a Kiwi thing?
Here's another punctuation issue which seems to divide opinion. Look at these two sentences:
"The sky is blue," he said.
"The sky is blue", he said.
I would always write it the first way, with the comma inside the quote, but some people maintain that it should be the second way.
Why is it that Generators are called this when applied to AC Alternators?.
An alternator
is a generator. My understanding of the terms:
Alternator = A device which produces alternating current
Dynamo = A device which produces direct current (albeit commutated power which looks like AC with every other half-cycle reversed)
Generator = A general term which can refer to either an AC or DC-producing machine.
Thus an alternator is a generator, but a generator is not necessarily an alternator.
