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- How VS. What is the weather forecast? Which one is correct?
How is tomorrow's weather forecast looking? How is the weather looking tomorrow? In both sentences, the addition of looking alters the meaning of the sentence enough that it's clear it's not asking about methods of forecasting the weather To address a comment about forecast versus forecasted: Forecast is both a verb and a noun
- What is the weather today? or How is the weather today?
Arguably some people might think the what version is more appropriate when the speaker is specifically interested in knowing what the weather actually is (or perhaps will be, later in the day) Conversely, the how version might be more likely if what the speaker wants to know is how the addressee feels about the weather
- What does the weather look like or what is the weather like?
We say, for example, "It looks like rain today", meaning something along the lines of "From what I can see [of the weather right now], I think it will probably rain later" By the same token, "What does the weather look like?" would usually mean "Based on what you see now, what do you think the weather will be like later today?"
- Can “wish the weather would be good tomorrow” be correct?
0 I wish the weather would improve tomorrow=grammatical I wish the weather were going to be good tomorrow =grammatical For it to be grammatical with regard to the future, you have to introduce the expectation, which is expressed using the past continuous subjunctive or regular past continuous to express an unreal situation in the present
- sentence construction - Need or needs with bare infinitive - English . . .
He need worry about the weather today He needs worry about the weather today Mostly we see the use of 'need' as modal verb in negative or interrogative sentences where it takes bare infinitive w
- questions - Can the British slang term innit be used as a stand-alone . . .
My co-worker informed me that the term most commonly is used as a question tag expecting a positive answer Boy: Lovely weather today, innit? Girl: Right you are! So, the question is: Can "innit" be used as a response to someone's statement with which you can agree, and are there any other usage notes that would be important to have?
- is it correct to say today is rainy or it is today, its rainy?
In the sentence "Today it is rainy" it does not refer to today, but to the weather (implicitly) Though in normal speech it's not uncommon for the "it" part to be omitted because it's common knowledge what your talking about So in short today refers to a day, and a day can not be rainy (technically)
- grammar - If I were you, If the weather were etc - English Language . . .
When we say "It would be nice if the weather were better " The statement "The weather were better" is unreal Really, the weather is bad Using "were" is considered more formal It is a piece of grammar from older English that is becoming less common in modern English It is also common in idioms like "If I were you"
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