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Vincent Teo  +  849960 Thu, 06 Aug 09 03:29 PM
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.
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heywoodc  +  849983 Thu, 06 Aug 09 03:46 PM
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.
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