2008年1月13日 · For example, native New Yorkers do not pronounce 'cause as anything that could reasonably be transcribed as "cos", and so this would not make any sense if you were transcribing a New York accent. On the other hand, 'cos is a fair approximation of the way the abbreviated word would be said by speakers with other accents.

"Cause for" seems to mean "a valid reason for", as in "cause for alarm". "Cause of" implies a causal relationship, as in "this is the cause of that". I personally can't think of many contexts where "cause for" would be appropriate other that "cause for alarm" and phrases similar to it.

It isn't the software or the workbooks that cause the increase in price, it's the fact of their inclusion in the packages that causes it. So, when determining the entity that "which" connects back to, you should see that invisible word "fact" as replacing everything in the first part of the sentence, and then you can see that it must be singular.

2015年5月20日 · 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 English: It rains cause clouds form in the sky, and that happens cause of water vapor, and vapor forms cause of trees and forests.

2004年11月5日 · Solamente quiero añadir que "cuz" es como suele sonar "cause" al hablar con rapidez o pereza. "[C]ause" se escribe sólo en comunicaciones informales o en comunicaciones redactadas con descuido. Habrá quienes que dirán que escriben "cause" con sus escritos escolares o universitarios. "because"!. FINAL ANSWER!

2015年4月23日 · Hello, my friends, I came across this sentence from an article written by a Chinese, I was wondering whether it is idiomatic: "Nowadays, the competition between younger people and old people is fierce which causes the younger people losing jobs and older people undergoing more work pressure."

2013年9月13日 · A drama queen is a person who goes out of their way to cause trouble (drama) simply for the sake of creating a problem. It carries the connotation of someone who finds tranquility boring, and will agitate a situation purely for personal entertainment.

2013年9月9日 · That is simply wrong. It should be (i) the cause of the illness. or (ii) the reason for the illness. In the sentence "he reason of the illness." With "of", reason would have the meaning of "the process of reasoning/logical thought." and illness does not have the capacity to think.

2016年3月2日 · What about "cause problems with"? Does it have the same meaning? The extract has been taken from "The Valley of Lost Secrets" by Lesley Parr. Thank you. Mrs Thomas leans over and strokes Ronnie’s head. ‘I knew Jack Evans would be the one to cause problems with evacuees, didn’t I say that to you, Alun? Gets away with murder, he does.’

2011年5月6日 · EFFECT, when used as a verb, means "to bring about; produce as a result; cause; accomplish" (Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition). You might have noticed that the examples I gave above for using AFFECT as a verb are quite familiar to you, whereas the examples I gave for using EFFECT as a verb were not.