Heh, Jez ;-)
Here is part the "spiel" from the website I maintain for the
University of London Air Squadron, under the heading, "Hints for Good
English":
• "Due to" is used to describe a noun clause, whereas "because of" or
"owing to" is used to describe a verb clause; e.g. "the train was
late because of leaves on the line"; or "the lateness of the train
was due to leaves on the line". The first phrase uses "because of"
to describe "... was late ..." (a verb clause); the second phrase
uses "due to" to describe "... the lateness of the train ..." ( a
noun clause). It is therefore extremely unlikely that you will be
correct if you start a sentence with "due to", mainly because you are
almost bound to follow it with the verb that you are trying to describe.
Any comments?
Chris
On 23 Nov 2006, at 09:24, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> Go on - in/enquiring minds want to know - give us the postcard
> version, due
> to / owing to the fact that most of us don't understand the
> difference...
> Jez
>
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