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Subject:Since v because From:"Sandy, Corinne" <CHS8 -at- CPSOD1 -dot- EM -dot- CDC -dot- GOV> Date:Thu, 22 Dec 1994 08:57:00 EST
Lisa wrote: Since I learned t he difference between the uses of which
and that, I have
been ever SO sensitive to the misuse of which. . . . (same with the misuse
of since, when because
is more appropriate).
Is anyone interested in pursuing the issue of the distinction between
since and because. I think I know, but I don't have a formal "rule" to go
by.