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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork  ...
3. Owing to/due to/because of/ are pretty much interchangeable. |
I've come across a prescription that 'due to' requires an antecedent noun. This means that while
The delay was due to the bad traffic is 'OK'
Due to the bad traffic there was a delay is 'wrong'. This prescription is on the wane, but in formal language, in BE, it is still sometimes observed; it's safer, when in the presence of influential and misinformed pedants, to start sentences with 'Owing to' rather than 'Due to'.
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