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- What is the weather today? or How is the weather today?
Both can be fine While the first focuses more on the objective description of the weather, and the second focuses more on someone's subjective opinion of the weather, the answer can go either way, depending on how the listener chooses to interpret the question
- What does the weather look like or what is the weather like?
That said, there's a chance that the first question is asking for an assessment of local weather conditions, not for a summary of the weather forecast Like the weather, English can be hard to nail down with precision every time
- Can “wish the weather would be good tomorrow” be correct?
b) I wish the weather would improve tomorrow [but it won't or might not] OR I wish the weather were going to improve tomorrow [But it won't] In a), you are just hoping it will be better In b), you have an expectation the weather might not be good, and to express what in fact there is a doubt about it, you say: I wish x would y That negative
- grammar - If I were you, If the weather were etc - English Language . . .
This is because the condition is "unreal" When we say "It would be nice if the weather were better " The statement "The weather were better" is unreal Really, the weather is bad Using "were" is considered more formal It is a piece of grammar from older English that is becoming less common in modern English
- Snowy or snowing? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
It's possible that snowy would work, but snowing is more similar to foggy Both foggy and snowing are weather conditions Roughly speaking both foggy and snowing mean the sky is filled with fog or snow respectively Snowy, however, is not a weather condition Snowy is a more general term than snowing, meaning things are covered with snow
- Are you working today or Do you work today?
Are you working today? Do you work today? They both ask, in practical contexts, whether the person is scheduled to work that day The latter, Do you work today?, could mean "Is this day of the week one you usually work on?" or since many people have schedules that vary, it could simply be asking if the person has been scheduled to work that day
- grammar - Is If it is rain tomorrow incorrect? - English Language . . .
"The forecast for today is 'rain' again " "If it (the forecast) is 'rain' tomorrow, we won't go to the park " In this case, "rain" is a quote about the weather Since it is a quote, it does not have a tense and is correct "(The sky) is raining " "If it (the sky) rains tomorrow, we won't go to the park "
- Meaning of warm vs hot when talking about weather
Hot weather is when temperatures are around 35°C; Then if today there is hot weather, what should we understand when one says "I wish it was warmer today" ? I understand that he she wishes to have temperatures around 40°C, but you could also interpret it as he she wishes the temperatures were closer to warm weather i e 25°C
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