"Storms are good to happen"

[Passionwagon]

Storms are good to happen.

Does that make sense? I know you can write "it is good for storms to happen", but I want to know if the first makes sense or not - and if not, why?

[matilda]

yes. the first sentence seems ok. what problem do you think it has?

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Passionwagon

Storms are good to happen.

Does that make sense? I know you can write "it is good for storms to happen", but I want to know if the first makes sense or not - and if not, why?

Your sentence would probably be understood, but it is not idiomatic English. If you parse the sentence, you have:

storms: noun, subject
are: linking verb
good: predicate adjective
to happen: infinitive (but it just hangs there)

[BobK]

Originally Posted by MikeNewYork

Your sentence would probably be understood, but it is not idiomatic English.
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Matilda seemed so sure that I thought it was an AmE meaning: *'Storms are likely to happen' (as in 'it is a good bet [or a reasonable guess] that storms will happen'). It's certainly meaningless in BE, though a sympathetic native speaker might interpret it in the meaning cited above ("it is good for storms to happen sometimes"),

b

ps - My first example was a [I]supposed[/B] meaning. I think it's wrong.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by BobK

Matilda seemed so sure that I thought it was an AmE meaning: *'Storms are likely to happen' (as in 'it is a good bet [or a reasonable guess] that storms will happen'). It's certainly meaningless in BE, though a sympathetic native speaker might interpret it in the meaning cited above ("it is good for storms to happen sometimes"),

b

That's the meaning I would have gotten from it.