grammar - Heavily raining or Raining heavily? - English Language . . . Here, heavily precedes the verb, and this may be determined by the fact that rain down is used transitively with the direct object insults I can't see how you can have heavily after the verb here: * Raining down heavily insults on the assembled guests OR Raining down insults heavily on the assembled guests looks clumsy
word usage - rainfall vs. rains vs. rain - English Language . . . 1 " 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
phrase requests - idiom which means rain heavily - English Language . . . NOUN 1 2 A heavy fall of rain ‘a deluge of rain hit the plains’ While it's more common, in my experience, as a noun (in regards to rain), it is also a verb: VERB [WITH OBJECT] Overwhelm with a flood ‘caravans were deluged by the heavy rains’ In your example, you could say: And then mother nature became furious The sky turned gray and
uncountable nouns - Using the indefinite article before rain . . . 2 I have recently learned the use of the indefinite article before uncountable nouns to talk about an unspecific instance Can I use "a heavy rain" in the following sentence to communicate that I am talking about an instance of heavy rain (a heavy downpour)? The water level in the lake is much higher after a heavy rain
What is the common way to say the rain reduced in intensity? In Britain, where we are experts in everything concerning what the weather is doing, it is eased off If the rain was especially hard, we sometimes say there was no let up But let up seems to me less common in the affirmative
Why do we use was not were here: There was a lot of wind and heavy . . . 1 Many weather-related words are uncountable nouns, such as wind, rain, sleet, snow, thunder, lightning, sunshine, and even "weather" itself That means they are used in singular form, even when there is more than one present There was a lot of wind and heavy rain Other examples: There was a lot of thunder and lightning
Word for describing water accumulated on roads It should be "heavy rain" not "heavy rains" A singular rain event (even if it stops and starts over a few days) is the uncountable "rain" "Rains" implies many rain events over a season, e g "the roads have been flooded by the monsoon rains"
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