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Mary
Is it natural to say these sentences?
“The clothes are flapping in the strong wind.”
“The clothes are waving in the light wind.”
*(suppose you wear those clothes)*
20 Thg 02 2021 04:35
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Those sentences sound fine to me, if your clothes are loose enough to move because of the wind.
The words "flapping" and "waving" don't have to be used for a particular strength of wind, but flapping seems like a stronger word than waving. Like, a flag waves in the wind, but if it starts flapping around, then it's probably a strong wind haha.
20 tháng 2 năm 2021
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Neither are really correct if you are wearing the clothes. You could say “your clothes are waving because of the light wind”
20 tháng 2 năm 2021
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I pictured the clothes were hanging outside on a clothesline and drying in the wind. Thus they were waving or flapping. It didn't occur to me from these sentences that someone was wearing the clothes.
20 tháng 2 năm 2021
1
I would say : the clothes are flapping in the wind. The word strong would be dropped because it would be obvious that the wind was strong if the clothes were flapping in the wind
20 tháng 2 năm 2021
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Not really.
In speech we could say
His clothes were flapping in the wind.
His clothes were flapping in a strong wind.
Flags wave, not clothes.
‘The strong wind’ is odd in your sentence because if we know that the wind is strong there wouldn’t usually be a need to repeat it. If the wind hasn’t been referenced, we would use ‘a’.
20 tháng 2 năm 2021
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Tiếng Anh, Tiếng Đức, Tiếng Ý, Tiếng Ba Tư (Farsi), Tiếng Tây Ban Nha
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Tiếng Anh, Tiếng Đức, Tiếng Ý, Tiếng Tây Ban Nha
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