2023-05-31 12:30:46
the locution because of y sequence blame forin a causal sense, they imply a negative nuancehence the appropriate thing is to use them exclusively to refer to something that is valued negatively.
However, sometimes contradictory phrases are found such as “This year’s tobacco harvest has been very good because of the rain”, “The player declared that he would be delusional if he believed himself to be the culprit of the victory” or “They will learn how the French lost in a humiliating way and only won because of others.”
He student’s dictionary record the locution because of with the meaning of ‘because of’ and the specification that generally the cause must be something negative. As indicated by the academic grammar, the deviation of the meaning shown by the examples, if it does not make ironic sense, may be due to a loss of the original semantic content. So, when the purpose is simply indicate the cause or authorship of a fact, for precision, it is preferable to use other expressions such as thanks to, due, due to, due of o responsible for, creator of if it is the adjectival sequence.
Therefore, in the above examples it would have been preferable to write “This year’s tobacco crop has been very good due to the rain”, “The player declared that he would be deluded if he believed himself the architect of the victory” and “They will learn how the French lost in a humiliating way and only won thanks to others.
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