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word usage - It is raining or it is rainy? - English Language . . . 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 raining could fit, depending on what you actually want to say; " because it is raining" indicates that water is physically falling from the sky right now, while "because it is
word usage - English Language Learners Stack Exchange 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 in Wales (usually) Yesterday, it was rainy It was a rainy day Note "I didn't go outside of house" is very non-idiomatic Use "I didn't leave my home", for example
Are the words snowy, icy, and rainy used differently than the . . . It is perfectly idiomatic to say “it is rainy” to mean “it is raining” and vice versa, m m , the same for snowy, icy, etc It is not necessary for snow or ice to accumulate to use these descriptions for the weather
word usage - rainfall vs. rains vs. rain - English Language . . . " 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 British English the rains refers to the season when there are heavy rainfalls
is it correct to say today is rainy or it is today, its 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' pronoun is needed to make the sentence correct (hence the 'it's')
grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange The original Poster wants to say they won't go to the park in rainy weather They are using a sentence with if to talk about the future If they have seen the weather forecast they can say: If it's raining tomorrow, I won't go to the park Notice that this example uses the present continuous We need the verb BE ('s) and the -ing form of RAIN
It was raining vs. It rained -- When to use which one? 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?
What is the weather today? or How is the weather today? If I want to ask about the weather today whether is cold or hot, worm or cloudy or foggy, rainy or snowy etc What should I choose of these two (or may be there's another way)?
word order - Today is rainy Vs. Its rainy today. - English . . . 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 be frost tomorrow But in the first examples that I'm asking about them, there's neither subject pronoun nor time-expression in the end That's why I'm asking my question