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it rains at present vs it is raining at present

Both sentences are correct, but the second is preferred. 'It is raining at present' is the more common and natural way to say that it is currently raining. 'It rains at present' is also correct but less commonly used, and it sounds formal or poetic.
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it rains at present

This phrase is correct but less commonly used in everyday language. It may sound more formal or poetic.

This phrase can be used to describe the current weather in a more formal or literary context.
  • Speed applies when rain is present.
  • When the first snow comes on Christmas eve, a huge rain of presents will be handed out to the couples.
  • To stimulate these singles, how about we rain them with presents?
  • Although many sectors will therefore have suffered from the present continual rain, it may well be that the wellness sector, spas, and urban tourism have benefited from the bad weather.
  • When it rains at this hour I start tossing in bed.
  • And making it rain at Toys "R" Us.
  • He's been beefing up our domestic security initiative, since you made it rain at Pierson's fund-raiser.
  • I mean, I could give you singles if the plan is to make it rain at the Lobster Box.
  • Did it rain at Las Olindas?
  • Well, how you want it, hundreds or tens, fives? I mean, I could give you singles if the plan is to make it rain at the lobster box.
  • I made it rain, made it rain, I made it rain on them boys
  • They can say, "Yesterday it rain," "Now it rain," "Tomorrow it rain."
  • But when it rains, it rains really hard.
  • I know it rain You Know it rain
  • You know, in Cleveland... it rains, not all the time... but to a kid who wants to go out and play... it seems like it rains every day.
  • For every time it rains it rains pennies from heaven there'll be pennies from heaven
  • And make it rain, make it rain, make it-
  • We fight floods, tropical rains at this time of the year.
  • These wonderful hot, humid days, and then rain at night.
  • Bright spells, some rain at times.

Alternatives:

  • it is raining at present
  • it is currently raining
  • it is raining right now
  • it is raining at the moment
  • it is raining presently

it is raining at present

This phrase is the more common and natural way to express that it is currently raining.

This phrase is commonly used to describe the current weather and is more natural in everyday language.
  • Boy, it is raining good advice in here.
  • Fact: Londoners have 101 ways to say that it is raining...
  • It is raining strong, confident women in my house.
  • I want to drive with the windows down, even if it is raining.
  • Imagine a cold wind, when it is raining.
  • If it is raining tomorrow, we stay at home.
  • Although, right now, I mean... it is raining.
  • - Eh. And it is raining out.
  • The first question is rather of a meteorological would be absurd to deny that it is raining outside.
  • It is raining, Master Dwarf and it will continue to rain until the rain is done.
  • 'It is raining here like Hades.
  • It is raining so heavily that the meeting is put off
  • "We can't get out any more, it is raining heavily outside."
  • Whether it is raining or snowing, whether we are in a crisis or a boom - it is always the same ideology, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with empirical economic reality.
  • We cannot continue to accommodate all those who feel uneasy in their own country, because it is raining there... or not; because it is a because it is no longer one; because it is underdeveloped, or because it is developing.
  • If it was raining at first, in terms of unemployment, it threatens to hail tomorrow.
  • At present, this Convention has not yet been ratified by all Member States At present, nine Member States have ratified this Convention.
  • The Commission also calls for a "provision" of EUR 18.8 million for new developments in IT systems - even though such developments are at present completely impossible to predict - and EUR 45.3 million (as against EUR 18.5 million at present) for the CCN/CSI network.
  • The EU is at present a reasonably competitive knowledge-based economy with production and consumption patterns that are at present insufficiently sustainable and with a level of social cohesion that leaves much to be desired.
  • It follows from applying the rules and criteria contained in Regulation (EC) No 1167/2004 to the information at present available to the Commission that the export refunds at present applicable should be altered as shown in the Annex hereto,

Alternatives:

  • it rains at present
  • it is currently raining
  • it is raining right now
  • it is raining at the moment
  • it is raining presently

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