Prepositions of Reason

This lesson is on prepositions of reason prepositions of reason.

Tell us why something happened.

They can also tell us why something will happen a common prepositions of reason are for through and because of but there are many others as we’ll see the preposition for usually joins a phrase with another noun everything happens for a reason I brought you flowers for your birthday if we use for to join a noun with a verb then the verb will usually take its gerund form which then means it gets treated as a noun and many thanks for helping me yesterday you have anything for getting rid of weeds in the garden.

I’m used through to explain how something happened.

But only succeeded through sheer hard work and determination.

The hard work and determination was the reason how he managed to succeed our sales increased through effective marketing and effective marketing being how we managed to increase sales to her courage.

The team escaped unharmed.

We also use because of to show the reason for something and this usually follows the main clause.

I was late for work because of the bus strike.

The moon only shines because of the sun as the sun shines on the moon.

It reflects to us it looks like the moon is shining but it’s not only because of the light from the sun

the football player was on the bench for a month because of his injury on the bench.

Here is an expression meaning that he wasn’t actively playing but sitting on the side during matches the barbecue was cancelled because of the heavy rain.

Now there are many other prepositions of reason we won’t go into lots of examples because they’re generally synonymous with the ones we’ve already seen and in many cases you can just swap out one of the ones we’ve seen with one of these other examples and the sentence will be just as good.

So these others would include due to on account of by courtesy of by reason of by virtue of in the light of and thanks to.