Rainy Day

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It's a cloudy rainy day. It has been without rain or snow for month. Beijing is a dry city. But I have never experienced a winter without snow except this year.

In the north of China, a longtime drought is still last. I learned from the news that the famers there began to water the crops by well or pump water from the river. Before, they almost waited for the rain. If the drought continues, the harvest will shrink definitely.
Jun 03rd 2009 18:03 Tealeaf

  • It's a cloudy rainy day.
  • It's a cloudy, rainy day.

 

  • It has been without rain or snow for month.
  • It hasn't been without rained or snowed for a month.

 

  • But I have never experienced a winter without snow except this year.
  • But I have never experienced a winter without snow, except this year.

 

  • In the north of China, a longtime drought is still last.
  • In the north of China, a longtime drought is still last going on. (This could more naturally be written: "There has been a drought in the north of China for a long time, and it is still going on.")

 

  • I learned from the news that the famers there began to water the crops by well or pump water from the river.
  • I learned from the news that the famers there began have begun to water the crops by well or by pumping water from the river.

 

  • Before, they almost waited for the rain.
  • Before, they almost just waited for the rain.

 

  • If the drought continues, the harvest will shrink definitely.
  • If the drought continues, the harvest will shrink definitely shrink.

 
Very well written. There are just some details that aren't right.

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