2023-07-18 11:01:04
when with the verb must (be) If you want to express that one thing has the cause of another or is a consequence of it, the complement is preceded by aand not by the preposition by.
However, there are uses in the press such as “This is not only due to what happened with her still husband”, “This is due to the presence of sucrose” or “The termination is due to force majeure”.
How do you pick up the Dictionary of the Spanish language, when the verb duty means ‘have for cause, be a consequence of’the complement indicating the cause is built with ay not with by or other prepositions that would also indicate causal value in other contexts.
Therefore, in the previous examples it would have been preferable to write “This is not only due to what happened with her still husband”, “This is due to the presence of sucrose” and “The termination is due to force majeure”.
For his part, he student’s dictionaryfrom ASALE, specifies that, with the sense of ‘being one thing a consequence of another’, this verb is used in participle or in constructions be due o be due to somethingno for something. Thus, in “They could request their dismissal due to non-payment”, the appropriate would have been “They could request their dismissal due to non-payment”.
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