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TasmanTiger Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence grammatical ?

Hello,

I'd like to ask a question :

Just because two variables are correlated does not necessarily imply that one has caused the other.

The adverb clause "Just because two ~" seems to be used as subject .

Is this grammatical ?

TasmanTiger
  

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No, it is not. , or add an 'it' as subject - adverb clauses do not act as subjects [though that does not mean that someone might not say it in a rather careless manner]. Well spotted!

— Anonymous

  • No, it is not.
  • , or add an 'it' as subject - adverb clauses do not act as subjects [though that does not mean that someone might not say it in a rather careless manner].
  • Well spotted!
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No, it is not. You would need to write something like The correlation of two variables does not..., or add an 'it' as subject - adverb clauses do not act as subjects [though that does not mean that someone might not say it in a rather careless manner].

Well spotted!
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Thank you forthe reply.

It helped me a lot !

Good day !
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