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mings
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:38 am Post subject: For or other thing? |
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Dear teacher.
Will this answer be right if I change 'for' into ' because of' in the following sentence?
'Why did you quit this job? - For low salary.'
Please help me. Thanks. |
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cgage
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| because of is ok |
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: For or other thing? |
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| mings wrote: |
Will this answer be right if I change 'for' into ' because of' in the following sentence?
'Why did you quit this job? - For low salary.' |
"Because of" (or due to) actually works better than for. Good catch. |
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mings
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks to both of you.  |
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