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Future332 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Thunderstorm
Is the following correct:
The football match was disrupted for 15 minutes due to a heavy thunderstorm.
Thanks.
The football match was disrupted for 15 minutes due to a heavy thunderstorm.
Thanks.
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Most people would accept this sentence as correct. According to the traditional rule, "due to" is incorrectly used, but hardly anyone cares any more about this rule.
- Most people would accept this sentence as correct.
- According to the traditional rule, "due to" is incorrectly used, but hardly anyone cares any more about this rule.
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Most people would accept this sentence as correct.
According to the traditional rule, "due to" is incorrectly used, but hardly anyone cares any more about this rule.
According to the traditional rule, "due to" is incorrectly used, but hardly anyone cares any more about this rule.
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I guess you would use "because of". Am I right?
Would you please post here a link where I could read about the traditional rule?
Or perhaps you could write it here just in short.
Thanks in advance.
Would you please post here a link where I could read about the traditional rule?
Or perhaps you could write it here just in short.
Thanks in advance.
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future332I guess you would use "because of". Am I right?Yes, "because of" will work, as will "owing to". But, as I say, most people would see no need to change "due to".
future332Would you please post here a link where I could read about the traditional rule?E.g.:
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