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To: Anaxagoras who wrote (1671)	1/13/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

(b) 'do' and 'due' (although a confusion with 'dew' seldom occurs) That reminds me. It's my understanding that "due to" is part of an adjectival phrase, and it's NOT a prepositional phrase. Thus: WRONG: Due to rain, the store is closed. RIGHT: The store's closure was due to rain. WRONG: Attributable to rain, the store is closed (see? grammatically identical to the first example, but there it just sounds wrong). RIGHT: Because of rain, the store is closed (that's a prepositional phrase and is properly placed). (By the way, I don't know whether "adjectival" is a word. Jack, I'd appreciate the correct term.) Sowbug