{"id":73424,"date":"2020-03-24T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73424"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:16:55","slug":"as-since-because-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/as-since-because-so\/","title":{"rendered":"As, Since, Because, So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The words\u00a0<b>as, since<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>because<\/b>\u00a0can be used to refer to the reason for something.\u00a0<b>So\u00a0<\/b>is used to refer to the result.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a pleasant evening. And hence we decided to go out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can combine these two sentences into one in the following ways.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>As it was a pleasant evening<\/b>, we decided to go out.<\/li>\n<li>We decided to go out\u00a0<b>because it was a pleasant evening<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Since it was a pleasant evening, we decided to go out.<\/li>\n<li>It was a pleasant evening,\u00a0<b>so we decided to go out<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Clauses introduced by<b>\u00a0as\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>since<\/b>\u00a0usually come at the beginning of sentences.\u00a0<b>As<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>since-clauses<\/b>\u00a0are relatively formal. In a less formal style, we can express the same idea using\u00a0<b>so<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>A because-clause<\/b>\u00a0can go either before or after the main clause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My brother had refused to accompany me. And hence I went to the court alone.<\/li>\n<li><b>As my brother had refused to accompany me<\/b>, I went to the court alone.<\/li>\n<li><b>Since my brother had refused to accompany me<\/b>, I went to the court alone.<\/li>\n<li><b>Because my brother had refused to accompany me<\/b>, I went to the court alone. OR I went to the court alone because my brother had refused to accompany me.<\/li>\n<li>My brother had refused to accompany me<b>\u00a0so I went to the court alone<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>When a subordinate clause comes at the beginning of a sentence, we usually separate it with a comma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words\u00a0as, since\u00a0and\u00a0because\u00a0can be used to refer to the reason for something.\u00a0So\u00a0is used to refer to the result. It was a pleasant evening. And hence we decided to go out. We can combine these&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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":[1280,2248,2247,1281,2249,280,1177],"class_list":["post-73424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-as","tag-as-or-so","tag-as-vs-because","tag-because","tag-because-or-so","tag-since","tag-so"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73424","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=73424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73425,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73424\/revisions\/73425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}