{"id":72240,"date":"2019-09-17T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72240"},"modified":"2019-09-17T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:33:04","slug":"due-to-vs-owing-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/due-to-vs-owing-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Due To vs. Owing To vs. Because Of vs. On Account Of"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Due to <\/b>and owing to <\/b>both mean because of. Phrases beginning with due\/owing to <\/b>are often separated from the rest of their sentence by a comma.<\/p>\n
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  • The flight was delayed, due\/owing to bad weather. <\/b><\/li>\n
  • The project has been cancelled, due\/owing to lack of support. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Due to <\/b>can be put after the verb be.<\/b> Owing to <\/b>cannot be used like this.<\/p>\n

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    • The delay was due to <\/b>bad weather. (BUT NOT <\/b>The delay was owing to bad weather.)<\/li>\n
    • A lot of your unhappiness is due to boredom. <\/b><\/li>\n
    • My success is due to my education.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      Due to, owing to, on account of <\/b>and because of <\/b>are all prepositions with similar meanings. They are followed by nouns or noun phrases.<\/p>\n

      Study the following examples:<\/p>\n

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      • The man was detained because of<\/b> his suspicious behaviour.<\/li>\n
      • The man was detained due to<\/b> his suspicious behaviour.<\/li>\n
      • The man was detained owing to<\/b> his suspicious behaviour.<\/li>\n
      • The man was detained on account of<\/b> his suspicious behaviour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        As you can see all of these prepositions are usually interchangeable.<\/p>\n

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        • The jet was grounded because of \/ on account of \/ due to \/ owing to<\/b> engine trouble.<\/li>\n
        • The match was cancelled due to \/ owing to \/ on account of \/ because of<\/b> bad weather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          With preparatory it<\/h2>\n

          All of these prepositions can be used with preparatory it<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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          • It was because of \/ on account of \/ owing to \/ due to<\/b> his hard work that he succeeded in life.<\/li>\n
          • It was due to \/ owing to \/ because of \/ on account of<\/b> traffic congestion that I missed my flight.<\/li>\n
          • It was due to \/ owing to \/ because of \/ on account of<\/b> illness that I failed my test.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Some people believe that it is wrong to use owing to<\/b> after it is\/was.<\/b> However, this usage is also becoming acceptable now.<\/p>\n

            Due to, owing to<\/b> and on account of<\/b> are mainly used in a formal style. In a less formal style, we prefer the conjunction because<\/b>. Note that a conjunction should be followed by a clause and not a noun.<\/p>\n

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            • The jet was grounded because it had engine trouble<\/b>. (NOT The jet was grounded because engine trouble.)<\/li>\n
            • The match was cancelled because it rained<\/b>.<\/li>\n
            • He succeeded because he worked hard<\/b>.<\/li>\n
            • The man was detained because his behaviour was suspicious<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Due to and owing to both mean because of. Phrases beginning with due\/owing to are often separated from the rest of their sentence by a comma. The flight was delayed, due\/owing to bad weather....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1322,1428,1430,1431,1429],"class_list":["post-72240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-because-of","tag-due-to","tag-due-to-vs-owing-to","tag-on-account-of","tag-owing-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72244,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72240\/revisions\/72244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}