No sooner

[English-teacher]

Originally Posted by RonBee

No, you can't say that. There are, however, plenty of ways to talk about rain. You can have

• a driving rain
  a mist
  a drizzle
  it coming down in sheets
  it pouring down
  it coming down in buckets
  it raining cats and dogs

That's good for now. :D

A student of mine referred me to this post after I corrected his work.

The above is totally incorrect.

You cannot have "a drizzle" anymore than you can have "a rain". It is simply drizzle or rain.

Also The "it coming down " and "it pouring" is appalling English. It should "it is coming . . . " or "it is pouring . . . " or "it is raining . . . "

[soutter]

Simple English.

The comparative needs something to be compared with;
therefore "I am bigger than X!" and of course the conjunction than.

No sooner said than done (almost simultaneously do the cause and effect occur).

"Sooner you than me."
(In written formal English, "Sooner you than I").

Never confuse than with that.

Francophones this is your umpteenth warning (parce-que than se traduit en tant que que en français)!