长期以来敝人一直坚持"because"的词性是连词，不是介词，不愿意说“it is because...”

Keith

并认为“it is because ...”是Chinglish。但是，最近看到了不少西人这么用。
例如：
－ If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
－ How can it be that an “awesome” God knows me by name and loves me without reservation? It is because He created me.
－ So why is Bush taking on the thankless issue of immigration? I believe it is because he sees the consequences for all Americans of our current dysfunctional policy.
连词能这么用吗？

[ 本帖最后由 Keith 于 2011-4-14 20:03 编辑 ]

Janet

我觉得好像是, Because 引导的从句作表语, 好像 It is that ......

yutoubao

原帖由 Janet 于 2011-4-13 23:10 发表
我觉得好像是, Because 引导的从句作表语, 好像 It is that ......

because 在这里引导表语从句，大多数人引导原因状语从句

林草123

LZ应该用AS作为连词吧。

craigie

同意楼上各位。
另外常用又不正确的是：the reason why i didn't come is because i was sick.

K

In written english, we avoid using because. We tend to use 'it is because'.

Starting a sentence using because is also avoided as it is seen to be faulty.
i.e. Because I had a huge lunch, I was not hungry during dinner. This sentence structure should be avoided =))

干部

你理解的连词和介词区别在哪里呢？是能否加在be动词后面吗？
你例子中的because都是连词，这么用是为了强调，突出原因，所以用it is 的句型。
例如例一，完全可以说i look confused because i am thinking，但是加上it is句型，对方想突出的重点就很明显了，本质上还是连词，后面接一个分句。

because of才是介词，后面接名词或代词构成介宾短语

aaplus

哎,大概只有国人才会研究的如上面几位高深.

dnr

我只知道一个裸女坐在石头上!

干部

愿意学习的人自然会去钻研以求自我提高。。。
如果国人多一点严谨务实的作风，可能比无知浮躁要好。。。

diaoni

Hmmm where did u get the idea of it being chinglish ar ?  to me there aint any prob wor....  i even think it''s quite formal cos iv been trained to use these 3 words to begin answering written questions all along in my past studies...

donnafan72

Rolyat

原帖由 craigie 于 2011-4-16 17:24 发表
同意楼上各位。
另外常用又不正确的是：the reason why i didn't come is because i was sick.

"The reason why" and "because" cannot be used together.  It is called redundancy.  

Similarly, one cannot say,

If it rains tomorrow, then I will not come.  (the "then" should be omitted in this case)