It raining heavily, the children couldn't play outside.
Is the above sentence acceptable?
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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).
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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
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