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How to spell because
What it means: For the reason that; due to.
In a sentence: I wore my raincoat because it was raining.
The part people get wrong
Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as becuase or beacuse.
Same family: cause, caused, causing, reason, since. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Because” comes from Middle English “bi cause,” which literally meant “by cause” or “for that reason.” Over time the two words merged into the single conjunction we use today.
Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)
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