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How do you use rain?
falling in drops or as if falling like rain.
- We must heave to the boat, it’s raining hard.
- Yesterday once more,memory,raining,snowing smiling are touching my heart.
- It’s raining.
- It’s not / it isn’t raining.
- I’m not crying.
- It looks like rain [raining].
- Though it was raining[sentencedict .com], he went there.
What did the duck say about his life in the pond?
the duck say that his life is boring in the pond.
Who came up with it’s raining cats and dogs?
The phrase might have its roots in Norse mythology, medieval superstitions, the obsolete word catadupe (waterfall), or dead animals in the streets of Britain being picked up by storm waters. The first recorded use of a phrase similar to “raining cats and dogs” was in the 1651 collection of poems Olor Iscanus.
What is the meaning of “it rained yesterday”?
“It rained yesterday” is simple past tense and is therefore a sensible way to describe something that happened wholly in the past.
What is the origin of the phrase “it is raining cats and dogs?
“Cats and dogs” may come from the Greek expression cata doxa, which means “contrary to experience or belief.” If it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining unusually or unbelievably hard. “Cats and dogs” may be a perversion of the now obsolete word catadupe. In old English, catadupe meant a cataract or waterfall.
What is an example of if it was raining?
E.g., one man to another in a lifeboat: “If it were raining, we could collect the rainwater to drink.” The former would be more natural to use in reference to a past event where the truth of the condition is knowable, but not necessarily known: “If it was raining, the road will be muddy.”
Why is it so hard to analyze two simple sentences?
Very few English speakers utter simple sentences like “I walked to the park,” or, “It was raining,” or, “I saw a dog,” unless we are answering a question, or telling a story and furnishing additional information. That’s why it’s so hard to analyze two simple sentences in isolation and figure out some subtle difference in meaning.