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Mr. Tom Posted 5 years ago
Vocabulary

Use of 'rainy'

Hi

Are these sentences fully natural? Any suggestions please?

  1. It was a heavily rainy night.
  2. The streets were all rainy.
  3. We knew that the next morning could be rainy.
  4. It looks very rainy. (=it looks as if it's going to rain.)

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom It was a heavily rainy night. No.

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  • Tom It was a heavily rainy night.
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  • Try: "There was heavy rain that night" or "It rained heavily that night".
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Mr. TomIt was a heavily rainy night.

No. Try: "There was heavy rain that night" or "It rained heavily that night".

Mr. TomThe streets were all rainy.

I don't understand what you mean by that.

Mr. TomWe knew that the next morning could be rainy.

OK.

Mr.
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Fraze.it finds 6 examples of "rainy streets". It is possible, but exceedingly rare as an attributive adjective. Not as a subject complement.

Google NGRAMs does not register "rainy streets" as a frequent collocation. There are a few citations, mostly in "pulp fiction" types of novels.

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