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Rainy Today Wet Raining Sunday Season Wet/Raining Generally

Idx 2231
Keyword rainy
Type of Sentence ?
Error Sentence It's rainy again today.
Correct Sentence It's wet again today.
It's raining again today.
Cloze Error Sentence It's [[rainy]] again today.
Cloze Sentence It's [[wet/raining]] again today.
Cloze Answer wet/raining
Choices rainy | raining | wet
Explanation

When rainy is used it generally comes in front of words like day, afternoon, Sunday and season (NOT after a verb): 'The baby was born on a rainy Sunday in June.' 'When does the rainy season begin?'

The more usual word is wet: 'Apart from a couple of wet afternoons, the weather was fine.' 'If it's wet tomorrow, we'll go on Monday instead.'

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