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Vasuarm Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Rain
Hi, please correct the following sentence. Thank you.
"Oh, rain in winter... unseasoned rain." shouted an old man from the crowd.
"Oh, rain in winter... unseasoned rain." shouted an old man from the crowd.
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Hi I don't know about the optative between inverted commas – I don't know if it's meant in that way – but I do know the full stop after rain should be a comma. "Oh, rain in winter... unseasoned rain , " shouted an old man from the crowd.
- Hi I don't know about the optative between inverted commas – I don't know if it's meant in that way – but I do know the full stop after rain should be a comma.
- "Oh, rain in winter...
- unseasoned rain , " shouted an old man from the crowd.
- Kind regards Dokterjokkebrok
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Hi
I don't know about the optative between inverted commas – I don't know if it's meant in that way – but I do know the full stop after rain should be a comma.
"Oh, rain in winter... unseasoned rain," shouted an old man from the crowd.
Kind regards
Dokterjokkebrok
I don't know about the optative between inverted commas – I don't know if it's meant in that way – but I do know the full stop after rain should be a comma.
"Oh, rain in winter... unseasoned rain," shouted an old man from the crowd.
Kind regards
Dokterjokkebrok
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I think he meant "unseasonable" rain, meaning, something that is happening at an unusual or unexpected time of the year. Usually, it snows in the winter.
(Comma after rain.)
(Comma after rain.)
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Ah, I wasn't really familiar with that idiom. 
Learnt something today.
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You are quite welcome. It's not idiom, though; it's standard English.
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