Raindrops fell softly on the roof.

Meaning: The rain was falling gently on the roof of the building.

Choice of Words: Raindrops are drops of water that fall from the sky during rain. Softly means in a gentle or delicate manner. Roof is the top part of a building that protects it from the weather.

Alternative Expressions

Water drops from the clouds landed quietly on the top of the house.

Meaning: This sentence means the same as the first sentence, but it uses different words to describe what happened.

Choice of Words: **Water drops** are the same as raindrops. **From the clouds** tells us where the water drops came from. **Landed** means that the water drops came down and touched the roof. **Quietly** means that the water drops made no sound when they landed.

The roof got wet as the gentle rain fell.

Meaning: This sentence means that the rain made the roof wet. It's a different way of saying that the raindrops fell on the roof.

Choice of Words: **The roof** is the top of the house. **Got wet** means that the roof became covered in water. **As** tells us that the roof got wet because the rain fell. **Gentle** means that the rain was not heavy or strong.

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