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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Correct or incorrect?

It's going to be snowing and cold.

It is my feeling that this is grammatically incorrect because "snowing" cannot be used as an adjective. Am I correct in thinking that the following sentence would be correct?

It's going to be snowy and cold.

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Anonymous It's going to be snowing and cold. It is my feeling that this is grammatically incorrect because "snowing" cannot be used as an adjective. Am I correct in thinking that the following sentence would be correct?

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous It's going to be snowing and cold.
  • It is my feeling that this is grammatically incorrect because "snowing" cannot be used as an adjective.
  • Am I correct in thinking that the following sentence would be correct?
  • It's going to be snowy and cold.
  • Thanks snow is also a verb, so It's going to be snowing is correct.
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AnonymousIt's going to be snowing and cold.
It is my feeling that this is grammatically incorrect because "snowing" cannot be used as an adjective. Am I correct in thinking that the following sentence would be correct?
It's going to be snowy and cold.
Thanks
snow is also a verb, so It's going to be snowing is correct. Here snowing
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Hi Anon:

You hear often:
There's a big storm coming. It's going to be raining cats and dogs this afternoon.

So, it's going to be snowing by itself is correct.
The sentence - It's going to be cold. - is also correct.

The question is about a non-parallel structure; the progressive joined with the adjective. - It's going to be snowing and co
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