'produce rainfalls' vs. 'carry rainfalls'

[Nicolette]

Hello Alan,

can I please ask a question regarding this test:

Test No. incompl/elem-22 "Weather Forecast", question 4

These will ......... some rainfall later this morning.

(a) bear
(b) carry
(c) produce
(d) present

Test No. incompl/elem-22 "Weather Forecast", answer 4

These will produce some rainfall later this morning.

Correct answer: (c) produce

Why is it 'produce' rainfalls and not 'carry rainfalls'?

Thank you
Nicole

[Alan]

Hi Nicole,

It is true that the clouds carry 'rain' but I am referring to 'rainfall' and I have used the verb 'produce' to indicate that the clouds will CAUSE rainfall. In other words the clouds will create the rainfall.

Hope this helps

Alan
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[Nicole]

Hi Alan,

thank you for your explanation, it make sense to me.

[blazya]

[Conchita]

[blazya]

Hi Conchita, I aprecciate you too much for the translation, I`m getting off topic, by the way "I`m getting off" is an idiom or something like that?

[Conchita]

The phrasal verb 'get off' has several meanings, which you can look up in dictionaries like this one:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=get+off

As for 'off topic', you can have a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-topic