I'm reading an article by DWT (https://www.dailywritingtips.com/because-of-and-due-to/), and I'm unable to diagram I missed the class because of the rain. Do I treat because of as the head of adverbial prepositional phrase modifying missed and attach the rain to it as the OoP?
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2Never mind "head". Treat because of as a preposition; in fact, it's the preposition corresponding to the conjunction because. So if you convert a clause to a noun, you change the because to because of. E.g, I left because he insulted me/I left because of his insult to me.– John LawlerCommented Nov 20, 2018 at 20:41
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Of course, ‘because’ comes from ‘by cause’. ‘Of’ then comes naturally after ‘cause’ just as it comes naturally from ‘by way of’.– TuffyCommented Nov 20, 2018 at 20:53
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Because of is a preposition, and as any preposition it forms a prepositional phrase (here: an adverbial modifier).
According to Oxford Living Dictionary:
because of
preposition
: On account of; by reason of.
‘they moved here because of the baby’
Synonyms:
on account of, as a result of, as a consequence of, owing to, by reason of, on grounds of, by dint of, due to
answered Jan 10, 2019 at 17:47
