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Kumenglish Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Despite

Despite having stopped rain, it is too cloudy.

Despite stopping rain, it is too cloudy.

Please check these sentences with "despite".

  

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kumenglish Please check these sentences with "despite". "Despite" does not work there. The stopping of the rain can have no effect on the degree of cloudiness.

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  • kumenglish Please check these sentences with "despite".
  • "Despite" does not work there.
  • The stopping of the rain can have no effect on the degree of cloudiness.
  • In fact, where I live, one expects it to stay quite cloudy at least awhile.
  • " Also, your sentences are ungrammatical.
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kumenglishPlease check these sentences with "despite".

"Despite" does not work there. The stopping of the rain can have no effect on the degree of cloudiness. In fact, where I live, one expects it to stay quite cloudy at least awhile. Maybe "Despite the rain's having stopped, the flooding got worse."

Also, your sentences are ungrammatical. You can say

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kumenglishDespite the rain having stopped rain, it is too still cloudy.

~ Although the rain (has) stopped, it is still cloudy.

Here's another:

Despite my parents being quite politically active, I didn't take much interest in politics.
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