Four generations of Americans have developed the habit of reading daily newspapers due to the comic strips being appealing.
(A) due to the comic strips being appealing (B) because of the appeal of the comic strips (C) for the fact of the comic strip's appeal (D) as a result of the comic strips having appeal (E) since the comic strips were appealing
In this sentence second part is providing reason. So "because of" is perfect usage here. Further, "because" and "because of" are used in two different cases.
"Because" must be followed by clause Ex: Natalie is not coming today because she has fever. [followed by clause]
"because of" must be followed by noun or noun phrase. Ex: Paul stood first in class because of hard work. [followed by noun] Take this example Ex: Four generations of Americans have developed the habit of reading daily newspapers because of the appeal of the comic strips [noun phrase]
"Since" is only correct to represent time frame in GMAT.
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Four generations of Americans have developed the habit of reading daily newspapers due to the comic strips being appealing.
a) due to the comic strips being appealing due to should be used where it means caused by b) because of the appeal of the comic strips Hold (c) for the fact of the comic strip's appeal d) as a result of the comic strips having appeal awkward (e) since the comic strips were appealing
And as for the question regarding Since..I think in GMAT, they prefer to use since for time period so better not get involved with it, unless of course E is the answer.
Four generations of Americans have developed the habit of reading daily newspapers due to the comic strips being appealing.
a) due to the comic strips being appealing---replace 'due to' by 'caused by'...awkward b) because of the appeal of the comic strips---hold c) for the fact of the comic strip's appeal---awkward d) as a result of the comic strips having appeal---question intends to say since comic strips were appealing, americans developed interest, here it says Americans developed interest only becuase of the comic strips that had appeal. e) since the comic strips were appealing---this means CS used to have appeal and they lost it at some point of time before.
B wins...
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Four generations of Americans have developed the habit of reading daily newspapers due to the comic strips being appealing.
a) due to the comic strips being appealing b) because of the appeal of the comic strips c) for the fact of the comic strip's appeal d) as a result of the comic strips having appeal e) since the comic strips were appealing
Agree with B. All other choices don't make much sense.
Reason was because of the awkward use of the word "due" which can conflict with the meaning of the sentence. Original meaning of the word is "owed"... example... The paper is due at 3:30pm.
This sentence uses "due" as an idiom which creates confusion. If you read the sentence with due in it's original meaning it would read as.... Four generations of Americans have developed the habit of reading daily newspapers owed to the comic strips being appealing..... very awkward
Four generations of Americans have developed the habit of reading daily newspapers due to the comic strips being appealing.
(A) due to the comic strips being appealing (B) because of the appeal of the comic strips (C) for the fact of the comic strip's appeal (D) as a result of the comic strips having appeal (E) since the comic strips were appealing
Take Way :
since can be used to either refer to specific time or it can be used as due to as well. But the problem here is with the tense. both should refer to same tense. And it clearly states that "People have developed the habit of X because blah blah" sounds correct.
the sentence says that because the comic strips were appealing...so the ppl developed the habit....
in that case the tense should be correct in E ....
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acer2knight wrote:
Four generations of Americans have developed the habit of reading daily newspapers due to the comic strips being appealing.
(A) due to the comic strips being appealing (B) because of the appeal of the comic strips (C) for the fact of the comic strip's appeal (D) as a result of the comic strips having appeal (E) since the comic strips were appealing
Take Way :
since can be used to either refer to specific time or it can be used as due to as well. But the problem here is with the tense. both should refer to same tense. And it clearly states that "People have developed the habit of X because blah blah" sounds correct.
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