anonymous Due to a national holiday, I couldn't send the documents. Or: I couldn't send the documents due to a national holiday. CB
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anonymous Due to a national holiday, I couldn't send the documents.
Or: I couldn't send the documents due to a national holiday.
CB
"Due to" needs a noun to refer to. Something is due to a cause. When you use "due to" the way you have, it sounds like you jumped out of the frying pan (the pedestrian "because") into the fire (misused "due to"). Write "Because of the national holiday, I couldn't send the documents."