That's the problem with your setup. I'm not judging, just saying, we all cut corners, and in haste, oops we forget something.
You _can_ forget to actually do it.
The electrical types are working on the grounding deal, I'll leave that explination to them, here's my silly version:
When water comes into your house, it comes from the same pipe, some goes tthrough the water heater & then there are 2 pipes to almost all of your sinks, right? One is hot water & one is cold water, and you can't just join the pipes together any old way - you need to keep the hot & cold pipes seperate, or else you will get tepid water or no water, not hot and cold water, & it won't be right. You'll have water, but it won't be right.
Correct?
With the ground and the neutral, they do connect one time in your main box, but any other place they have 2 very different jobs to do. A person needs to keep them seperated, not mixed and matched.
It's just like the water system - it's easy to get water out of the faucet by just plumbing the pipes together anyplace/ any pipe, but to get the right water out of the right pipe, you need to follow the 2 pipe path & keep them seperate.
The nuetral & the ground are like that too - it's not right to mix them up, even tho you get electricity out of the socket.
If you mess up the water system, you might get wet, or too cold or too hot or no water at all. Bummer, but no big deal.
If you mess up that grounding circut, someone could possibly get killed. Doesn't always show up in the first 25 years, but - the possibility is always there.
That's the non-electrician version of the difference between neutral & ground. ;) Probably doesn't help much. But it is important.
The ground circut is hopefully never used, but it needs to run from every device back to that one common bond in one box back at the begining of your wiring. If it has more than one path or gets crossed with the nuetral wire, it no longer can do it's job safely, and then if it is needed, it will harm more than it helps. No noe will know it's wrong (because it's not obvious - the wiring will likely work & provide electricity no matter how you wire it up) until the wrong set of things comes up, & zap.
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