Avoid Repeating BECAUSE Use these ADVANCED English alternatives
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to english with lucy today i’m going to
teach you not only
how to improve your vocabulary but also
how to improve your writing i think this
lesson is really
important we’re going to take a look at
because
and because of as well these words tend
to be repeated
far too often i do it myself i write an
essay
and i find myself using because because
because of because of
all the time but you can’t just pick
another word
and put it in there it has to fit and it
has to work
grammatically in this lesson i’m going
to give you a selection of
alternative words that you can use in
place
of because and because of you have to be
careful with those two but i will
explain to help you
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firstly
let’s take a look at the difference
between because
and because of it might sound simple but
it really isn’t it stumps
confuses a lot of my students because
on its own is a conjunction and it’s
followed by a subject
and a verb because she felt
tired she didn’t go out because she felt
tired
she didn’t go out because of
is a two-word preposition it’s followed
by a noun phrase
or verb ing because
of her tiredness that’s a noun phrase
she didn’t go out or because
of her feeling tired she didn’t go out
there’s a lot more to say on this matter
but i think that’s enough for now enough
for you to
understand all of these alternatives for
because
and because of that i’m going to show
you so
to show you all of the alternatives i’m
going to tell you a story so it’s not so
boring i’m going to tell you
about my education my journey through
various schools and whether i found it
easy or difficult
i’m first going to show you the sentence
using because
or because of and then i’m going to show
you that same
sentence with an alternative for because
or because of let’s begin with number
one
when i was a child i lived in a tiny
village
because my parents loved the peaceful
countryside
now here we can replace because
with as as is a direct
synonym for because but it’s a secondary
one
as can be used quite easily in place
of because when i was a child i lived in
a tiny village
as my parents loved the peaceful
countryside
another example only 60 students
attended the local primary school
as it was very rural so you can use
because here
or as because it was very rural
as it was very rural rural is a word
that lots of students
struggle to pronounce rural
it means isolated or surrounded by
countryside
no towns or cities around let’s move on
to the next alternative because of this
we were blessed with a great ratio of
teachers to students
so here i’ve used because of we can
replace this
with due to due to this
we were blessed with a great ratio of
teachers to students
another example due to the small class
sizes
i had to invite the entire school year
to my birthday parties but don’t worry
in my year there were three boys and
four girls
at one point there were seven students
in my entire year at school
let me know how many students there were
at your first
school i would love to know in the whole
school
for me 60 students because of the small
class sizes
due to the small class sizes both work
there
due to describes results and effects
let’s move on to the next alternative
here’s the first sentence
when i was nine i moved up to a middle
school
with 500 students i was so excited
because i would get to meet
new people we can replace because
with due to the fact that so
because of due to because
due to the fact that due to the fact
that might sound quite long
but it’s a really great alternative if
you can keep it in your head
it replaces because not because of
really really well i was so excited due
to the fact that i would get to meet new
people
due to the fact that can you hear when i
say i’m not saying
due to the fact that i say
due to the fact that due to the fact
that
fact that i miss out that t sound
when i’m speaking quickly because it’s
too much effort for my tongue
to say fact that factor that
due to the fact that another example i
found this school
difficult due to the fact that i’d never
interacted with so many people before
i went from knowing 60 students to 500
students
and i remember it was a much bigger
school
i got lost in it let’s move on
to another alternative we have the
example sentence
eventually i moved to a girls school i
hated this school because i found the
girls to be very unfriendly
we can replace because with since
and since it’s quite a formal equivalent
for because
i hated this school since i found the
girls to be very unfriendly
another example since the school was
very far away
i had to get up at six in the morning
and i didn’t get home
till after six in the evening so for
four years of my life
i had a 12 hour school day
which i wasn’t too happy about my
parents never planned for
the day to be so long but after i
enrolled in this school
the council started building a new road
and the road took four years to complete
so instead of going directly
on the bus to the school we had to go
all the way
around and it took two hours each way
let’s move on to the next one
another alternative for because of i
didn’t have much free time
because of this i lived for the weekends
we can replace because of this with
as a result of this this is very similar
to due to
as a result of this i lived for the
weekends
i always remember feeling really excited
on a friday when i got home
and really depressed on a sunday night
when i realized
i’d have to get up at five something
to catch the bus at six o’clock i bet
lots of people who commute to work can
relate to that
another example during this period i
missed a lot of school
as a result of an illness called
mononucleosis
because of an illness as a result of an
illness both work
and this is true i caught an illness
called mononucleosis it’s also known as
glandular fever lots of young people
catch this illness
and most people recover in a couple of
months
i will tell you what happened in the
next example i recovered from the virus
in three months but i spent the next
three to four years
suffering from severe fatigue
i became depressed because of this here
we can replace
because of with thanks to
i became depressed thanks to this
thanks to this i became depressed thanks
to could be used for both
positive and negative outcomes so this
is a negative one
thanks to my illness i was depressed
obviously that’s
negative an example of a positive
outcome with thanks to
thanks to the support of my family i
slowly made a full recovery
because of the support of my family i
slowly made a full recovery
i was 14 when i caught that virus and it
took until i was
16 to feel near normal
and 18 before i felt completely normal
again it was
so strange post-viral fatigue at 16 i
returned to a co-educational high school
co-ed short for co-educational is a
school with both genders rather than a
girls school or a boys school
called single-sex schools i found it
very strange to be around
boys because i had spent four years with
girls
here we can replace because with
four and this is slightly more formal
it’s often used in poetry i found it
very strange to be around
boys for i had spent four years with
girls it does sound very poetic but i
like it
another example i found it hard to make
friends
for everyone had known one another for
many years
i’ve got two more examples another
alternative
i focused on studying spanish because of
my desire to escape my situation
here we can replace because of with
out of out of serves to explain
feelings and emotions you’ll often hear
i did something
out of curiosity because of due to
curiosity
out of with feelings and emotions i
focused on studying spanish
out of my desire to escape my situation
and the last alternative
hopefully ending this story on a
positive note because i speak a second
language
i feel so much happier as a person we
can replace this with
now that now that i speak a second
language
i feel so much happier as a person and
it’s true
learning a second language absolutely
changed my life
i was one of those people who really
didn’t enjoy school
i did the majority of my learning once
i’d left school that’s when i started
experimenting with languages
learning how to teach learning how to
create videos
i wonder if any of you would like to
share your experience with school
in the comments section i know that so
many people absolutely loved school i
mean my fiance will
adored his school days and for me
it’s really strange it’s hard for me to
understand because for me
school was such a negative thing however
i do think
predominantly it was a me problem my
problem
not the school’s problems because lots
of other people seem to have
a fantastic time there anyway happy now
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