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Chiachen Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Can droughts replace drought here:

Despite rising temperatures that have spawned record-setting heat waves, drought and wildfires across the nation*
  

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You cannot use 'droughts' unless several have come and gone like the heat waves and the wildfires.

— Mister Micawber

  • You cannot use 'droughts' unless several have come and gone like the heat waves and the wildfires.
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You cannot use 'droughts' unless several have come and gone like the heat waves and the wildfires.
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Thanks. So, that's why "droughts" is in "The predictions all point to worse heat waves, more extreme weather, rising sea levels, the loss of polar ice,worsening droughts and wildfires.", but cannot be used in the aforementioned one?
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