It raining heavily, the children couldn't play outside. Is the above sentence acceptable? ---------------------------------------------------- No, you can't use impersonal "it" like that. Where "it" refers to something, you sometimes can. "I tried on a jumper. It being too big, I didn't buy it." (Terrible example, but grammatical). ----------------------------------------------------------- As an NES but not a teacher: Not really. It sounds very similar to the "Thai-speak" that I regularly hear over here. I would have phrased it: "It was raining so heavily that the children couldn't play outside." Hope this helps R21 -------------------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/bvq2pua -- ※ 编辑: sitifan 来自: 163.30.191.253 (04/16 14:21) ※ sitifan:转录至看板 Eng-Class 08/15 17:39