Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English(Third Edition) by Patricia T. O'Conner
Author:Patricia T. O'Conner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-07-26T14:00:00+00:00
REASON . . . IS BECAUSE. Here’s a redundancy for you, a wording that seems to repeat itself: The reason Rex stayed home is because robbers tied him up. Can you hear the echo effect? Because means “for the reason that,” so the example says, in effect: The reason Rex stayed home is for the reason that robbers tied him up. Use one or the other, not both: The reason Rex stayed home is that robbers tied him up. Or: Rex stayed home because robbers tied him up.
SEEING AS/SEEING THAT. See being as/being that, page 120.
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