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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Due to

When can you use 'due to' because today our english teacher said it was not correct to say "The shop is closed due to a burglary, it is more correct to say the shop is closed owing to a burglary."
  

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" There are some pedantic and (nowadays) rarely followed purist rules about the use of "due to" and I've never figured them out. " I guess you can say "owing to" but I personally don't like that construction.

— BarbaraPA

  • " There are some pedantic and (nowadays) rarely followed purist rules about the use of "due to" and I've never figured them out.
  • " I guess you can say "owing to" but I personally don't like that construction.
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I can't imagine that "owing to" is ever more correct than a simple "because of."

There are some pedantic and (nowadays) rarely followed purist rules about the use of "due to" and I've never figured them out.

However, based on the reading I just did, you would say "The shop's closure is due to a burglary" or "The shops is closed because of a burglary." I guess you can say "owing
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Your teacher is correct according to traditional rules about the use of "due to", but nowdays fewer and fewer people understand those rules or follow them, and more and more people use "due to" in the way you've done. Many native speakers -- even educated ones -- would accept your sentence as correct.
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I support GG's example of the correct use of "due to," although I don't think anyone has ever called me "pure." Emotion: wink

I find "ow
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