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Francesca Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

the millionth doubt about "due to"

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00I'm really sorry: I've spent all the day in reading a lot of posts about "due to/because of" issue, but I couldn't find out if I should use "due to" or "because of" in the following sentence 05002br
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01i00Therefore, the water column is usually clear, with the exception of macroalgal biomass decay period, when the water becomes very dark 01font00due to02font00 bacteria and dynophyceae developments02i00.02br
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00In my opinion "because of" could fit better, what's your opinion about it?02br
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00I apologize again and I thank you in advance 051010id1011id1
  

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0As I know, "due to" is colloquial, and since the sentence looks to be from a scientific article, I think "because of" fits it better. 010id1

— Ruslana

  • 0As I know, "due to" is colloquial, and since the sentence looks to be from a scientific article, I think "because of" fits it better.
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0As I know, "due to" is colloquial, and since the sentence looks to be from a scientific article, I think "because of" fits it better. 05000 But wait for a native or teacher.010id1
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0 This seems a technical/scientific paper. I wouldn't use 01i00because of02i00 in such context, it's too "ordinary":02br
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00 Google hits:02br
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00 66,000 for "due to bacteria"02br
00 12,400 for "because of bacteria"02br
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00 Do some 01b00GOOGLE02b00 searches on some
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0Fran, don't rack your brains and just use "owing to". 050010id2
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0 Too rare:02br
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00 66,000 for "due to bacteria"02br
00 34 for "owing to bacteria" 02br
00 12,400 for "because of bacteria"0-
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0 Hi Cesca, 02br
00 I can tell you what my dictionaries say:02br
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00 Oxford, OALD: due to - caused by somebody/something, because of sb/sth. 00HELP: "Some people think that it is more correct to use 01b01i00owing to02i02b00 to mean ‘because of’ after a verb or at the beginning of a clause, as 01b01i00
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0"Due to" is formal?? If it's true, I should throw out my Oxford Eng-Rus dictionary. 050051010id311id7
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0Thank you Lana, Marius and Kooyeen 05102br
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00Anyway I have another doubt:02br
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00I've read what Mr.P wrote in a previous post [url=05000]here[/url] : 01blockquote
01cite10Mr.Pedantic12cite101. 'Cancellations due to the lack of a driver are all too common these days.' 12br
102. 'The
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0 MrP's objection is mentioned here:02br
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00 USAGE NOTE00 01i00Due to02i00 has been widely used for many years as a compound preposition like 01i00owing to,02i00 but some critics have insisted that 01i00due02i00 should be used only as an adjective. According to this view, it is incorrect to say 01
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10...since 11i10due to12i10 is 11b10widely used12b10 and understood, there seems little reason to avoid using it as a preposition.12blockquote
10Well, let's admit that there are lots of wrong things commonly used. Maybe that happens owing to a goo
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00Actually, I hate it when wrong things become "right" just because a majority is accustomed to use it.12blockquote
10What other choice do we have? How else would language ever change? The languages we speak today are significantly different from their counterparts of centuries ago. Does that mean we are all saying wrong things that h
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