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Hey CK - only an human agent can 'quit' doing something: 'I quit my job.' It is better to say 'stopped' in this case. Also 'when' is more idiomatic than 'because' in this context.
CK - I did the google search, and there were only 2000 odd hits, so hardly common. I concede that people say it, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it shows a misunderstanding of what the word 'quit' means. It requires a subject to make an agentive decision, and since the 'it' in the phrase 'it's raining' is a dummy pronoun, not a real subject, it can't act in this way.
Fair enough. I suppose the problem here is that there isn't such a thing as 'English', just lots of Englishes and the expression just doesn't happen to make sense in the version I use. I thought you were a non-native speaker and you'd made a mistake, that's why I commented, but now I know!
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Because it quit raining, he went out for a walk.
added by CK, October 22, 2011
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