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Because of & due to 的区别

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发表于 2007-4-14 05:47:00 | 显示全部楼层

Because of & due to 的区别

AUSE OF & DUE TO
    

       
      

        
            
                
                    
                
                
                    

                            Because of & due to

                        

   The
word pairs “because of” and “due to” are not interchangeable. The
reason they are not is that they “grew up” differently in the language.


     “Because of” grew up as an adverb; “due to” grew up as an
adjective. Remember that adjectives modify only nouns or pronouns,
whereas adverbs usually modify verbs. (The fact that adverbs
occasionally modify other adverbs or even adjectives and entire phrases
is not relevant to this particular discussion.)

     To be more precise, with their attendant words, “due to” and
“because of” operate as adjectival and adverbial prepositional phrases.
To understand how the functions of “due to” and “because of” vary, look
at these sentences.


                        

1.
                            His defeat was
                                due to
the lottery issue.


                        

2. He was defeated because of the lottery issue.


                        

     In
sentence #1, his is a possessive pronoun that modifies the noun defeat.
The verb “was” is a linking verb. So, to create a sentence, we need a
subject complement after the verb “was.” The adjectival prepositional
phrase “due to the lottery issue” is that complement, linked to the 
subject by “was.” Thus, it modifies the noun defeat.

     But in sentence #2, the pronoun "he" has become the sentence's
subject. The verb is now “was defeated.” As reconstructed, “He was
defeated” could in fact be a complete sentence. And “due to” has
nothing to modify. It's an adjective, remember? It can't very well
modify the pronoun “he,” can it?

     Neither can it refer to “was defeated” because adjectives don't
modify verbs. Sentence 2, therefore, should read: “He was defeated
because of the lottery issue.” Now the “why” of the verb “was defeated”
is explained, properly, by an adverbial prepositional phrase, “because
of.”

     In informal speech, we probably can get by with such improper
usage as “His defeat was because of the lottery issue,” and “He was
defeated due to the lottery issue.” But we shouldn't accept that kind
of sloppiness in writing. We don't want to look stupid among those in
the audience who know better. If we show them we don't care about the
language, how can we expect them to believe us when we tell them that
we care about the facts?

收集的,希望有用。

                        

 楼主| 发表于 2007-4-14 05:52:00 | 显示全部楼层

(1)   GWD-7-Q40:


    

Since February, the Federal Reserve has raised its short-term interest
rate target five times, and because of the economy’s continued strength,
analysts have been predicting for weeks that the target will
be raised
again in November.


    

 


    
  1. because
         of the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for
         weeks that the target will
  2. with
         the economy’s strength continuing, analysts predicted for weeks that the
         target
  3. because the economy continues strong, analysts
         predicted for weeks that the target would
  4. due
         to the economy’s continued strength, analysts have been predicting for
         weeks that the target
  5. due
         to the fact of the economy’s continued strength, analysts predicted for
         weeks that the target will


这题应该A正确,
D不正确.due to 不能解释"Why"的"analysts have been predicting for weeks";虚拟语气错.
C也不正确,因为for week应用完成时态, 另外,用strong错误.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-4-14 6:25:45编辑过]
发表于 2007-4-14 17:45:00 | 显示全部楼层
强贴,收藏了^^
发表于 2008-3-22 13:48:00 | 显示全部楼层

谢谢分享!

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感谢分享!               
发表于 2022-5-26 23:14:18 | 显示全部楼层
哇,这个总结好!
发表于 2022-10-8 18:21:57 | 显示全部楼层
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