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- grammar - When should I use cause and causes? - English Language . . .
In both situations there is a lack of resources which causes people to die This sentence should be read as follows: there's a lack of some resources, and it is this lack that's causing deaths In effect, without those resources people die; the resources help avoid death Unfortunately, there's a lack of those resources This sentence makes sense, and is what you probably want to write
- “cause” or “causes”? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Or: Is this the only factor that causes such tragedies? In that form, the singular factor matches with the verb causes Your sentence mixes the plural rooms with the singular factor, making it hard for you to figure out which form the verb cause (s) should take (This isn’t necessarily ungrammatical, but sometimes this can make a sentence
- causes of or causes for - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
If you simply want to say the person or thing that makes something happen, you say 'cause of'; but if you want to say a reason for having particular feelings or behaving in a particular way, you say 'cause for'
- grammaticality - What is the correct usage of cause? - English . . .
1 No - your current sentence is ungrammatical You probably should use because instead of cause The main reason I need an extension is because the literature survey took so long If you want to keep the word cause, you can use the slightly more stilted The lengthy literature survey caused me to need an extension 2 Use of the word cause is given in the dictionary: Cause Noun A person or thing
- modal verbs - Is which may causes the correct phrase? - English . . .
Here I've formed a phrase " Organic former usually use natural pesticides and fertilizers instead using chemical pesticide which may causes economic damage to agricultural productivity " for respective phrase from a passage " Organic farmers use natural pesticides and fertilizers " I've used " which may causes " to form the phrase Is this
- is cause vs. it causes - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
In the grammar test below, Why option 3 is not correct? Only where market failure occurs ------ to worry, and even such failure may tend to excessive conservation 1)is there perhaps cause (
- word choice - What causes X or What does cause X? - English Language . . .
What causes coral bleaching ? What does cause coral bleaching ? What is the difference?? Which is grammatically correct?
- When we use to cause to be? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
As your link says, "to cause to be" is a definition of the word "make" As such, the phrase and the word can be fairly interchangeable when used that way "The jalapenos caused my salsa to be too spicy " "The jalapenos made my salsa too spicy " "Chlorine makes my hair dry " "Chlorine causes my hair to be (or to become) dry " I can't think of a circumstance where "to cause to be" would be
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