Typhoon Sura
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This is the photo from Taiwan Weather Bureau, which shows medium-strength typhoon Sura is heading towards Taiwan at 8 km/hr.
If Sura keeps moving north-northwest, according to weather forecast, it will be landing or touching Taiwan on Thursday.
The typhoon radius is growing and threating east coast of Taiwan.
Lately, the weather has been scorching but the temperature is cozy just right before the typhoon visits here.
Although typhoon will cause mud-sliding , flooding and catastrophe on agriculture here, many students and busy people still welcome its coming.
It is because we could take 1 or 2 days off.
If Sura keeps moving north-northwest, according to weather forecast, it will be landing or touching Taiwan on Thursday.
The typhoon radius is growing and threating east coast of Taiwan.
Lately, the weather has been scorching but the temperature is cozy just right before the typhoon visits here.
Although typhoon will cause mud-sliding , flooding and catastrophe on agriculture here, many students and busy people still welcome its coming.
It is because we could take 1 or 2 days off.
If Typhoon Sura keeps moving north-northwest, according to weather forecast, it will be landing or touching Taiwan on Thursday.
Lately, the weather has been scorching but the temperature is mild just right before the typhoon visits here.
It's throwing down rain in Taipei...
Although the typhoon will cause mud-sliding , flooding and an agricultural catastrophe here, many students and busy people still welcome its coming.
How are you doing ? I remember you mentioned that you will work in Taiwan.
And you asked me about your son, who will go to bilingual school here.
Is everything OK ? Thank for every sentences you corrected for me back then.
I appreciate you very much.
Best regard !! ^^
I live in Taipei now with my family. And my son has been going to Taiwanese school here and made good progress with his Mandarin.
Your English was always good and it's getting perfect ^^
This is a the photo from the Taiwanese Weather Bureau, which shows that medium-strength typhoon Sura is heading towards Taiwan at 8 km/hr.
Alternately, "This is the photo that shows..."
Wow, I never realized how complicated the issue of definiteness can be until I started thinking about how to explain why I changed the article in this sentence. This is a really good example for illustrating the difference between "which" and "that".
The difference is, with the grammatically essential "that" clause identifying which photo it is, it's specific enough for "the". Which photo is it? It's the photo that shows that typhoon Sura is heading for Taiwan.
However, the grammatically parenthetical "which" clause is additional information added almost as an afterthought. Which photo is it? I don't know, it's a photo -- oh, and by the way, it shows that typhoon Sura is heading for Taiwan.
If Sura keeps moving north-northwest, according to the weather forecast, it will reach Taiwan on Thursday.
This is just a minor style suggestion. Neither "will be landing" nor "will be touching" is wrong, but I think most native speakers would be more likely to say "will reach" in this context.
The typhoon's radius is growing and threatening the east coast of Taiwan.
The word "threat" is a noun. The verb is "threaten". The -en is a standard verb-forming suffix indicating causation. Compare "strengthen", "blacken", "enlighten", "brighten", "awaken", and "cheapen", among others.
Lately, the weather has been scorching, but the temperature is cozy, just right before the typhoon visits here.
"Cozy" and "just right" are parallel or in apposition, hence the comma. Another option would be to insert the word "and" between them.
Although typhoon will cause mudslides, flooding, and an agricultural catastrophe here, many students and busy people still welcome its coming.
"mud-sliding" wouldn't be wrong, except we have a perfectly good noun for that.
Reading your explanation just likes reading a good book. ^^
Thank you very much.
Your explanation is easy to understand because you used a good example.