- cause, cos, because - WordReference Forums
’Cause (or ’cos) is a slang contraction of because You should avoid using it except in casual conversation
- Cause for vs cause of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Check "understand the cause of for" in Google Books, and you'll find a few dozen "for", against hundreds of thousands of of's You can bank that particular idiomatic usage (bank = add it to your acquisitions), and probably bank on the method to resolve questions about other usages (bank on = rely upon)
- Is cause instead of because becoming Standard English?
Nowadays, I'm seeing a drastic increase in usage of cause in place of because, especially in written English People are in such a hurry, that a statement like below passes off like Standard Englis
- en raison de à cause de pour cause de grâce à
En particulier, à cause de et en raison de peuvent être suivis d'un déterminant ou non selon le contexte En revanche, pour cause de n'est normalement suivi d'aucun déterminant
- Word that describes someone that causes his own misfortune
The lack of judgement does not necessarily cause one's misfortune, but the risk is so high, that anyone knowing the risk, is in fact responsible for causing their own misfortune when it occurs So, looking into the past, someone who causes their own misfortune from lack of judgment or prudence was a fool having done a foolish thing
- à cause du fait que - WordReference Forums
A cause du fait que est tout simplement très malhabile et redondant, à cause de et du fait de que ayant des fonctions presques équivalentes (due to the fact that; because: due to the cause that)
- slang - Whats a word to describe people who blindly follow their . . .
a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person especially : one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance political partisans who see only one side of the problem Sycophant is also a pretty good word to describe people like that if they have something to personally gain or lose
- Is there a word to describe a person who likes chaos?
Spontaneous is another with a slightly less evil connotation Though that's more of a personality trait than a behavioral trait, which is to say that I wouldn't necessarily be prepared to say that a spontaneous person would want to cause chaotic situations
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