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Bubu prasant Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Are these correct?
Ar the following expressions correct? If not, then plz suggest corrections
It is stupendously raining!
It is strenuously raining!
It is raining stupendously!
It is raining strenuously!
thanks
It is stupendously raining!
It is strenuously raining!
It is raining stupendously!
It is raining strenuously!
thanks
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I am a native British English speaker and we would not use these words to describe a rain. Strenuous would mean requiring/using a lot of effort and rain is an inanimate object so it doesn't really apply effort does it. Stupendous is not often applied as an adjective of 'lots' as it does not apply to quanitity as in mass, so much as quantity as in size.
- I am a native British English speaker and we would not use these words to describe a rain.
- Strenuous would mean requiring/using a lot of effort and rain is an inanimate object so it doesn't really apply effort does it.
- Stupendous is not often applied as an adjective of 'lots' as it does not apply to quanitity as in mass, so much as quantity as in size.
- A British person would say 'raining heavily' or to emphasise really heavy rain would say 'pouring with rain' or 'it is pouring down'.
- A colloqialism is to say that it is 'raining cats and dogs', a bit of a strange saying that means very heavy rain.
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I am a native British English speaker and we would not use these words to describe a rain. Strenuous would mean requiring/using a lot of effort and rain is an inanimate object so it doesn't really apply effort does it. Stupendous is not often applied as an adjective of 'lots' as it does not apply to quanitity as in mass, so much as quantity as in size.
A British person would say 'raining
A British person would say 'raining
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