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Dileepa Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

How to use "owing to"

Please someone tell me how can I use "owing to" correctly in a sentence.


I want to say following sentence.


movies are popular because they are ubiquitous.


Please tell me whether following sentences are successfully paraphrase above sentence or not.


I want to say movies are popular, owing to the fact that they are ubiquitous.

I want to say movies are popular, owing to they being ubiquitous.

I want to say movies are popular, owing to they be ubiquitous.

  

Top answer

I want to say movies are popular, owing to the fact that they are ubiquitous. OK I want to say movies are popular, owing to their being ubiquitous. OK as edited.

— Clive

  • I want to say movies are popular, owing to the fact that they are ubiquitous.
  • OK I want to say movies are popular, owing to their being ubiquitous.
  • OK as edited.
  • I want to say movies are popular, owing to they be ubiquitous.
  • No.
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I want to say movies are popular, owing to the fact that they are ubiquitous. OK

I want to say movies are popular, owing to their being ubiquitous. OK as edited.

I want to say movies are popular, owing to they be ubiquitous. No.

More natural is eg movies are popular because they are ubiquitous.

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"owing to their being ubiquitous" But I don't care for that.

...owing to their ubiquity.

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dileepaMovies are popular because they are ubiquitous.

You might consider that maybe movies are ubiquitous because they are so popular.

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