2015年11月18日 · While I agree that "due for" usually refers to a person and event and not the time something is due, I received an email recently where someone said "we need this for Thursday". When "for" is followed by a temporal noun, what is the precise meaning? Given your example with 'Mr. Green's Class', "due for" seems closer to "due on", putting more emphasis on the date than the precise time. Would ...

Very simply, due to modifies nouns and because of modifies verbs. They are not interchangeable, though the perception of due to being 'more intelligent' than because of ensures that plenty of people misuse it - delicious irony! Example: His failure was due to poor preparation Here, due to poor preparation is modifying his failure via the linking verb was, so the sentence works. If …

The phrase "due diligence" appears to imply that a certain level of diligence is "due" from the party "doing" the diligence to a second party. Whenever I encounter this term, it make me cringe, because the people using it [I review commercial appraisals] seem to be unable to speak of diligence without attaching a "due" in front.

2012年5月24日 · Due to often refers back to a whole clause even when there is a notional antecedent, as with 'starvation' in the sentence• • Out in the countryside, two million people are at risk of starvation, due to the failure of the harvest.

2011年1月27日 · "Due to" seems more common than "owing to" in modern English. Is "owing to" simply an old-fashioned way of saying the same thing, or is there a rule to using it?

2013年1月31日 · I know that "past due" stamped on a bill is accepted, however I believe it should be "passed due". Does this mean that "past due" is vernacularly correct and "passed due" is grammatically correct?

What's the definition of falling due and how did its sense materialise? Please compare it against "due"? I'm mindful that it's an accounting/business term: here are its matches on Google Books. I'...

2018年8月26日 · Aside from the obvious difference in meaning, with all due respect is very formal and a quintessentially posh phrase. no disrespect, on the other hand, is less formal and more widely used than its counterpart.

2014年8月28日 · Without additional information, 'due by MM-DD-YYYY' has a fair chance of meaning: Due at or before 11:59:59 PM on that date - that is, before the specified day ends.

2010年8月13日 · When should "due to" be preferred over "thanks to", and vice versa? When can they be used interchangeably?