Avoid Repeating BECAUSE! - Use these ADVANCED English alternatives!

[Music] hello everyone and welcome back to english with lucy today i'm going to teach you not only how to improve your vocabulary but also how to improve your writing i think this lesson is really important we're going to take a look at because and because of as well these words tend to be repeated far too often i do it myself i write an essay and i find myself using because because because of because of all the time but you can't just pick another word and put it in there it has to fit and it has to work grammatically in this lesson i'm going to give you a selection of alternative words that you can use in place of because and because of you have to be careful with those two but i will explain to help you even more with your english learning journey i have created a free pdf and a quiz for this lesson so you can test out your learning and understanding if you'd like to download the free pdf and quiz all you have to do is click on the link in the description box enter your name and 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subscribers to click on the link in the description box will get a free trial of premium skillshare membership so you can explore your creativity right let's get started with the lesson firstly let's take a look at the difference between because and because of it might sound simple but it really isn't it stumps confuses a lot of my students because on its own is a conjunction and it's followed by a subject and a verb because she felt tired she didn't go out because she felt tired she didn't go out because of is a two-word preposition it's followed by a noun phrase or verb ing because of her tiredness that's a noun phrase she didn't go out or because of her feeling tired she didn't go out there's a lot more to say on this matter but i think that's enough for now enough for you to understand all of these alternatives for because and because of that i'm going to show you so to show you all of the alternatives i'm going to tell you a story so it's not so boring i'm going to tell you about my education my journey through various schools and whether i found it easy or difficult i'm first going to show you the sentence using because or because of and then i'm going to show you that same sentence with an alternative for because or because of let's begin with number one when i was a child i lived in a tiny village because my parents loved the peaceful countryside now here we can replace because with as as is a direct synonym for because but it's a secondary one as can be used quite easily in place of because when i was a child i lived in a tiny village as my parents loved the peaceful countryside another example only 60 students attended the local primary school as it was very rural so you can use because here or as because it was very rural as it was very rural rural is a word that lots of students struggle to pronounce rural it means isolated or surrounded by countryside no towns or cities around let's move on to the next alternative because of this we were blessed with a great ratio of teachers to students so here i've used because of we can replace this with due to due to this we were blessed with a great ratio of teachers to students another example due to the small class sizes i had to invite the entire school year to my birthday parties but don't worry in my year there were three boys and four girls at one point there were seven students in my entire year at school let me know how many students there were at your first school i would love to know in the whole school for me 60 students because of the small class sizes due to the small class sizes both work there due to describes results and effects let's move on to the next alternative here's the first sentence when i was nine i moved up to a middle school with 500 students i was so excited because i would get to meet new people we can replace because with due to the fact that so because of due to because due to the fact that due to the fact that might sound quite long but it's a really great alternative if you can keep it in your head it replaces because not because of really really well i was so excited due to the fact that i would get to meet new people due to the fact that can you hear when i say i'm not saying due to the fact that i say due to the fact that due to the fact that fact that i miss out that t sound when i'm speaking quickly because it's too much effort for my tongue to say fact that factor that due to the fact that another example i found this school difficult due to the fact that i'd never interacted with so many people before i went from knowing 60 students to 500 students and i remember it was a much bigger school i got lost in it let's move on to another alternative we have the example sentence eventually i moved to a girls school i hated this school because i found the girls to be very unfriendly we can replace because with since and since it's quite a formal equivalent for because i hated this school since i found the girls to be very unfriendly another example since the school was very far away i had to get up at six in the morning and i didn't get home till after six in the evening so for four years of my life i had a 12 hour school day which i wasn't too happy about my parents never planned for the day to be so long but after i enrolled in this school the council started building a new road and the road took four years to complete so instead of going directly on the bus to the school we had to go all the way around and it took two hours each way let's move on to the next one another alternative for because of i didn't have much free time because of this i lived for the weekends we can replace because of this with as a result of this this is very similar to due to as a result of this i lived for the weekends i always remember feeling really excited on a friday when i got home and really depressed on a sunday night when i realized i'd have to get up at five something to catch the bus at six o'clock i bet lots of people who commute to work can relate to that another example during this period i missed a lot of school as a result of an illness called mononucleosis because of an illness as a result of an illness both work and this is true i caught an illness called mononucleosis it's also known as glandular fever lots of young people catch this illness and most people recover in a couple of months i will tell you what happened in the next example i recovered from the virus in three months but i spent the next three to four years suffering from severe fatigue i became depressed because of this here we can replace because of with thanks to i became depressed thanks to this thanks to this i became depressed thanks to could be used for both positive and negative outcomes so this is a negative one thanks to my illness i was depressed obviously that's negative an example of a positive outcome with thanks to thanks to the support of my family i slowly made a full recovery because of the support of my family i slowly made a full recovery i was 14 when i caught that virus and it took until i was 16 to feel near normal and 18 before i felt completely normal again it was so strange post-viral fatigue at 16 i returned to a co-educational high school co-ed short for co-educational is a school with both genders rather than a girls school or a boys school called single-sex schools i found it very strange to be around boys because i had spent four years with girls here we can replace because with four and this is slightly more formal it's often used in poetry i found it very strange to be around boys for i had spent four years with girls it does sound very poetic but i like it another example i found it hard to make friends for everyone had known one another for many years i've got two more examples another alternative i focused on studying spanish because of my desire to escape my situation here we can replace because of with out of out of serves to explain feelings and emotions you'll often hear i did something out of curiosity because of due to curiosity out of with feelings and emotions i focused on studying spanish out of my desire to escape my situation and the last alternative hopefully ending this story on a positive note because i speak a second language i feel so much happier as a person we can replace this with now that now that i speak a second language i feel so much happier as a person and it's true learning a second language absolutely changed my life i was one of those people who really didn't enjoy school i did the majority of my learning once i'd left school that's when i started experimenting with languages learning how to teach learning how to create videos i wonder if any of you would like to share your experience with school in the comments section i know that so many people absolutely loved school i mean my fiance will adored his school days and for me it's really strange it's hard for me to understand because for me school was such a negative thing however i do think predominantly it was a me problem my problem not the school's problems because lots of other people seem to have a fantastic time there anyway happy now i really hope you enjoyed this lesson don't forget to complete the quiz you can share your results in the comments section if you'd like to download the pdf with that quiz it's completely free click on the link in the description box you enter your name and your email address you sign up to my mailing list and i send it directly to your inbox if you're looking to practice your listening skills i have fully subtitled vlogs of my life here in the english countryside on my other channel lucy bella don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media i've got my instagram and my website englishwithlucy.co.uk i've got a really cool pronunciation tool that you can use for free you can click on any sound and hear how i pronounce it i will see you soon for another lesson [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Wed Mar 24 2021