A student wrote the following sentence in an essay: Things such as software and workbooks are included in the textbook packages, which causes a significant increase in price. My question is reg...
"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.
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Is "'cause" here the reduced of "because"? Or is it "just cause" with this meaning in here? Just cause means a legally sufficient reason. Just cause is sometimes referred to as good cause, lawful cause or sufficient cause. Monica: There's nothing to tell! He's just some guy I work with...
The term 'cause (with an apostrophe before the c) has appeared in the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary series and in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language series for more than 30 years. Merriam-Webster was the first of the two series to provide an entry for the abbreviated term—in the Eighth Collegiate (1973): 'cause conj : BECAUSE This entry, which is absent from ...
What you say may turn out to be true, but it's essentially a philosophical position. Linguistically, I think you could still assert that the word "causeless" has an underlying 'basic' meaning of "without cause" on some level -- even though, as you say, it might turn out that in real-world pragmatics that effectively boils down to "without known cause" or "without directly detectable cause" etc.
I would say that the sentence could be written as "The middle paragraph has to be very convincing and create an impact on the reader." This demonstrates why 'make' is the better chioce. 'Make' can mean 'compel', 'create' or 'fabricate' while 'cause' can only mean 'compel' or 'initiate'. Since the impact is 'created' then 'make' is the better choice.