Question

read the following sentence.

because of the weather, practice is cancelled.

which word is serving as a subordinating conjunction? select the best answer.

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because of the weather, practice is cancelled.

Explanation:

🆕 New Concept Discovered: Subordinating Conjunctions vs. Prepositions
Connecting clauses versus introducing noun phrases.

Step 1: Understand the role of a subordinating conjunction

A subordinating conjunction (such as because, although, if, since) must connect a dependent clause to an independent clause. A clause always contains both a subject and a verb (for example, "Because the weather was bad, practice was cancelled").

If a word is followed only by a noun phrase instead of a full clause, it functions as a preposition rather than a conjunction.

Step 2: Analyze the given sentence

Let's look at the sentence provided:

"Because of the weather, practice is cancelled."

• "Because of" is a multi-word preposition.
• "the weather" is a noun phrase (the object of the preposition).
• There is no verb in the phrase "Because of the weather", meaning it is a prepositional phrase, not a subordinate clause.

Therefore, there is no word in this sentence functioning as a subordinating conjunction.

Answer:

There is no subordinating conjunction in this sentence. (The phrase "Because of" functions as a preposition here because it is followed by a noun phrase, "the weather", rather than a subject and a verb).