word usage
" His cloak was wet due to the heavy rainfall/rains/rain " I agree with @AricFowler the definite article " the " is optional here. All the three words rainfall/rains/rain are actually synonyms. Notice that in
is it correct to say "today is rainy" or it is "today, it''s rainy"?
The reason is that in the first sentence, "today is rainy", today is the object being described directly, so you don''t need the pronoun ''it''. In the second however, there is a comma so after the comma, the ''it''
"It was raining" vs. "It rained" -
Do the sentence "It was raining" and the sentence "It rained" mean the same thing? Another example: "I walked to the park" vs. "I was walking to the park" mean the same thing? When to use which?
grammar
What are the best foods to have on a rainy day? What are the best foods to have for a rainy day? Which preposition would be appropriate here?
grammar
I would have corrected the first example simply by adding an -y. "If it is rainy (sunny, windy, cloudy etc.) tomorrow" sounds grammatical to me.
Are "It is rainy now" and "it is raining now" the same? Also what is
So, it seems like " it is rainy now " means " it is raining a lot now ". Ok, let say, we look out through the window, and the rain is falling from the sky, and the rain is light not too heavy or a lot.
word order
Is it correct to say " Today is rainy" (or " Tomorrow will be frost.")? Normally I mention the time-expression in the end of the sentences as I was taught in past. For example: It is rainy today. It will
"I don''t like it when it is rainy." VS "I don''t like it raining."
Rainy as an adjective, indicates such as the ''rainy season'' - which isn''t continuous rain. Raining is what is happening - ''it''s raining'', or ''it was raining an hour ago'', for example.
word usage
To describe what is actually happening right now, you use the verb form: It is raining. To describe the sort of day it is, you use the adjective form: Today is a rainy day. In your first sentence, either rainy or
word usage
To talk about the weather, we idiomatically use "it". It''s raining (now) Yesterday it was raining all day. Yesterday it rained (at least once) To talk about the type of weather you might use "rainy". It is rainy
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