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'Because' cannot be used in a sentence more than once because...
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5Can you please provide a better explanation of your problem and the solution you need? Maybe it's just me, but I am not sure I grasped what you are asking... – Alenanno May 10 '11 at 17:21
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Is it grammatically correct to use because more than once in a sentence? – Prabhanjan Naib May 10 '11 at 17:23
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1Something like "Is this meaning okay: 'The police suck because they are bad because they only want my money'?", perhaps? – Shathur May 10 '11 at 17:35
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5On a totally unrelated note, a sentence should not end in because, because because is a conjunction. – RegDwigнt May 10 '11 at 18:20
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@RegDwight: "Why did I do that? Just because." – MrHen May 10 '11 at 18:41
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Related but not a dupe: Can a sentence start with “Because” – MrHen May 10 '11 at 18:42
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5@MrHen: I was trying to make a different point. But if you insist: it's hard to construct a sentence that mentions three time in a row the word because because because is a conjunction. – RegDwigнt May 10 '11 at 18:51
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3@Kirk, there are no grammatical rules that forbid any word from occurring twice in a sentence. Any word can occur multiple times in a sentence. – nohat May 24 '11 at 06:49
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Because of this, and because of that, something happened.
That's a perfectly valid English sentence. It's a little flowery, something you might see in a book, but it's not wrong to use "because" twice. Others might prefer the following:
Because of this and that, something happened.
But it's just preference.
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2It might also be repeated for dramatic effect: `Because our forefathers ate pie, because our children like pie, because scary clowns fear banana-creme pie -- for all these reasons, we must eat pie!" – Will Martin May 10 '11 at 22:14
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Dramatic effect: "If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was The Wizard of Oz is one because Because, because, because, because, because... Because of the wonderful things he does." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz – Wayfaring Stranger Jan 21 '12 at 18:35
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It doesn't sound good. Because, since, for, as are used to give reasons. for your example:
As (since, cause of) ..., 'Because' cannot be used in a sentence more than once.
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Because cannot be used in a sentence more than once, for ...
But because puts more emphasis on the reason!
Here is a good explanation.
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Sometimes instead of:
"'Because' cannot be used in a sentence more than once because...."
I use a colon:
"'Because' cannot be used in a sentence more than once: it's repetitive and it puts the reader right to sleep."
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