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Despite the traditional view that the adjectival use is best (due being equivalent to attributable), the phrase is commonly used as a preposition or conjunctive adverb for because of, owing to, caused by, or on the grounds of—e.g.: "Due to {read Because of} a mistake in Lincoln-Mercury's press material, which we didn't notice until we read ...
"The sales report is due by 12pm on Friday." The day something is due follows the time, which is given more importance. The time can be stripped and the sentence will still work, one just loses the precision of the request. "Due on" places more importance on the day something is due, and not so much the time. "Your membership fee is due on ...
5. I usually meet "due to" usage in a document or conversation, but in different ways. I did some research and found out that "due to" is adjectival. Thus, the correct sentence should be: The cancellation was due to rain. Instead of: It was cancelled due to rain. But when I looked it up in Longman Dictionary, I found: She has been absent from ...
Due to often refers back to a whole clause even when there is a notional antecedent, as with 'starvation' in the sentence• • Out in the countryside, two million people are at risk of starvation, due to the failure of the harvest. RECOMMENDATION: it is correct to use due to in both the ways shown
4. 'past' means something has happened, it's in the past. like a 'past exam paper.'. Passed means to either pass the exam (get a good mark) or to physically pass something when travelling, "We passed the landmarks rather quickly.'. "Past due' would mean, I think that the bill is past the date it was due to be paid. Share.
Owed and due are closely related. Owed, without more explanation, means the total amount of debt obligated to be paid by A to B. Due means the amount of debt that is expected to be paid by a given date (a due date) from A to B. At times they are the same, at times due is a subset of owed. This assumes that the person owing is also the person ...
1. It is perfectly normal English though, personally, I would enclose "due to her health condition" in commas since it can be seen as parenthetical. This would give: _"She wants to work harder but, due to her health condition, is not allowed to do so". – BoldBen. Oct 31, 2018 at 10:27.
Due to as a prepositional phrase meaning “because of, owing to” has been in use since the 14th century: Due to the sudden rainstorm, the picnic was moved indoors. Some object to this use on the grounds that due is historically an adjective and thus should be used only predicatively in constructions like The delay was due to electrical failure.
Due to is also correct (if the clause is rewritten to be a phrasal noun), but it always sounds like jargon if the explanation is more than a few words. So, Good: The store was closed due to rain. Bad: Due to the availability of reference data with a leading company and difficulty of blah blah blah blah blah
I believe that the term 'due' is used to distinguish the cardinal points from the ordinal and other points such as southeast and west-by-southwest so saying "due southeast" to indicate exactly southeast is not really correct. @BoldBen That is exactly what I said: the points on a compass known as north, south, east and west can be preceded by ...