‘Because of’ should not be used to modify a sentence in the future tense, since it is a logical fallacy to impute a cause to something that is not (yet) true. Rather, a construction such as ‘due to’ or ‘owing to’ should be used, or the sentence should be rewritten to be more clear.
Remember the fake-grammar-rule contest we wrote about a while back? There’s a winner! Here’s Allan Metcalf discussing the finalists, and Geoff Pullum of Language Log parsing the pigheadedness of it all.
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booleanearth said:
Ah, you guys read Language Log. Awesome.
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