Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Rain drop

Can I say,

(a) The rain drops /dropped into /in the pail.

(b) The ran water / rainwater was collected in a pail.

(c) We collected the rain / raindrops in a pail.

(d) The rain / rainwater is in the pail.

(e) The rain fell into the pail.

(f) We can collect rain / rainwater using (/ in) a pail.
  

Top answer

a. into b. rainwater c.

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1 Answers
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a. rain...into
b. rainwater
c. rain or rainwater  - this refers to the larger quantity
d. Some not the because we can't talk about all the rain, but the sentence sounds a little awkward because the context is missing
e. correct
f. both are correct.