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Dice Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

The teacher can't teach lessons properly as his laptop is broken.

The teacher can't do lessons properly because his laptop is broken.

  

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Dice The teacher can't teach lessons properly as his laptop is broken. I like to se a comma with "as" when it is a conjunction like this, mostly because "as" is formal or literary in this use, and the reader expects it to be an adverb for a microsecond without the comma. Dice The teacher can't do lessons properly because his laptop is broken.

  • Dice The teacher can't teach lessons properly as his laptop is broken.
  • I like to se a comma with "as" when it is a conjunction like this, mostly because "as" is formal or literary in this use, and the reader expects it to be an adverb for a microsecond without the comma.
  • Dice The teacher can't do lessons properly because his laptop is broken.
  • " Do lessons" is not so good.
  • By the way, "because" does not take a comma here, and usually doesn't at all.
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DiceThe teacher can't teach lessons properly as his laptop is broken.

I like to se a comma with "as" when it is a conjunction like this, mostly because "as" is formal or literary in this use, and the reader expects it to be an adverb for a microsecond without the comma.

DiceThe teacher can't do lessons properly because his laptop

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