Expressing cause and effects

cause and effect relationship

• The social function of these expressions is to show cause and effect
relationship.
• The cause and effect sentence is also called the causal sentence or
the causality sentence is a sentence that is built by involving the
action that makes something happen and the result of action.
Structure of the expresions is a follows:
• The word “cause” means “a reason for an action or condition” or
“something tht brings about an effect or a result”
• The word “effect means something that inevitably follows an
antecedent (such as a cause or agent)
• Below are some examples of “cause and effect” relationship :
NO Cause Effect

A boy kicked a ball The ball rolled

Salma studied hard during her Salma graduated from university with
education cumlaude
I was very tired I selpt on the sofa

He didn’t say hello this morning She wasn’t happy during the day
• The language features of ‘’cause and effect’’ relationship are as follows:
a. The use of conjunctions to show cause,such as:
1. because 4. because of
2. since 5. due to
3. as 6. for
b. The use of conjunctions to show effects, such as:
1) So 4) consequently
2) Thus 5) for that reason
3) As a result