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The phrase "and therefore cause" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when establishing a causal relationship between two statements or ideas, but it needs to be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "The heavy rainfall led to flooding, and therefore caused significant damage to the infrastructure."
Alternatives: "and thus resulted in" or "and consequently led to".
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Cancer Research UK states that a "persistent hoax claims that lipsticks contain lead and therefore cause cancer".
While they remain in the air, these aerosol particles bounce sunlight away from the earth and therefore cause cooling rather than warming.
Woods has trimmed his schedule in recent years so that he enters only the top tournaments, which generally feature the toughest course set-ups and therefore cause higher scores.
"There's reluctance to be critical because they understand that to be critical would further erode investor confidence and therefore cause the markets to dive deeper," says James D. Cox, a corporate law professor at the Duke University School of Law.
That is an indictment of the Fed, whose job it is to coordinate our expectations so that we all anticipate, and therefore cause to occur, maximum employment and an average inflation rate of 2%.
"The last thing we want to do is increase borrowing costs for all our cities and towns, and therefore cause tax rates to go up across the state, because one city has fiscal problems," said Robert G. Flanders Jr., the state-appointed receiver for Central Falls, explaining the new state law putting bondholders first in line.
which diffuse slowly and therefore cause inordinately long detection times.
have very low rate of biodegradation and therefore cause environmental pollution.
Sulfonylureas stimulate insulin secretion independent of the blood glucose concentration and therefore cause hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetic patients.
Different types of organophosphorus compounds inhibit the cholinesterase enzyme and therefore cause a range of toxic effects.
Description: Faulty fixation or insufficient fixation might lead to movement of the cargo and therefore cause unbalanced loading conditions.
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