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Speaker 1: Seeing that you like learning English. Here, I thought you

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may be interested in sounding more fluent and sophisticated. Today

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we're gonna look at seven different ways to give a reason,

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aside from because, for you need to always expand your vocabulary.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City, and here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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This is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven seventy seven Other

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ways to say, Because today's lesson is all about helping

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you explain yourself better. Like when you want to say

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why something happened, Yeah, you could say because, But aren't

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you tired of just using because all the time? Today,

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let's look at all those other ways you can explain

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a reason so you can sound more fluent and really

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get your point across. Okay, let's start with because do

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you need to explain why you're late? You can say

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something like I'm late because there was traffic. Remember we

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use because followed by a subject and verb, I'm late

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because there was traffic. You can also show a reason

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with since and as followed by a subject and verb

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since it was raining, I stayed home as I was tired.

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I went to bed early last night. But here's the thing.

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Since and as can be a little tricky because they

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have other meanings too, so it all depends on the context.

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Like imagine you're telling a friend, since I moved to

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New York, I'm eating so much pizza. Well, your friend

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might think, is it because of New York that you're

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eating more pizza? Or did you just happen to start

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eating more pizza after you moved. It could be either.

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Since shows a reason like because, but it also means

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from some point in time in the past to a

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more recent time. And as also has two meanings, like

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as I left the office, I was happy. This could

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mean because I left the office I was happy, or

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at this same time I left the office, I was happy.

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Context is important, and to be honest, if I have

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a choice between using as since and because to give

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a reason, I would stick with because it's the most clear,

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especially as a short response, why are you late? Oh

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because there was traffic? Sorry, boss? Okay, So that's because

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since and as. Those are good starting points. Now, if

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you really want to sound impressive, you're gonna need some

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new phrases, especially if you want to sound more formal,

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like in a presentation or a report. All right, let's

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hear them seeing that, given that and inas much as

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these show a reason and are also followed by a

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subject and verb, those sound fancy, right. Imagine you're explaining

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why you couldn't go to a party. You could say,

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seeing that I had to work late, i couldn't make

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it to your party. It's a lot more polite and

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sophisticated than just saying because I had to work. And

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given that is similar like given that the weather is

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so bad, we should postpone our trip, and then, inasmuch

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as the project is behind schedule, we need to work

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extra hours. It sounds like you're emphasizing the reason and

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its impact on the situation. By the way, seeing that,

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given that and inas much as all come at the

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beginning of the sentence. When you use seeing that, given

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that and inas much as you're setting up the reason,

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it's like you're giving the reason first and then explaining

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the result. Two others are four and in that yeah,

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informal situations, four can be used to introduce a reason

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like Jack never dated anyone after Jenny, for she broke

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his heart that really has a formal sound like this one.

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I appreciate his help in that he was the only

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one who stayed late to finish the project. As you

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can see four and in that come in the middle

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of a sentence showing the result first. And keep in mind,

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the best way to remember vocabulary like this and any

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other word or phrase in English is to take that

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word or phrase, write it in a sentence that's true

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for you or true in your world, and then memorize

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your sentences and check this out. Do you need more

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