"For" "Since and "Because"

Martin01

In understand that the words “for,” “since” and “because” introduce premises with the conclusion following the premise or preceding these words. However, sometimes these words are used in a manner that does not comply to this rule, so I get confused when to apply this concept. Can someone help?

DumbHollywoodActor

I explained this in your other post. Here’s a link for some more discussion of the difference between prepositions and conjunctions: http://clasfaculty.ucdenver.edu/tphillips/grammar/prep_vs_conj-intro.pdf

and a little more detail : http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-it-proposition-is-it-conjunction-or.html

GSU Hopeful

Unfortunately, there aren't any hard and fast rules. When these are used in ways other than their purpose of introduction of premises, you really have to operate with intuition and understand the flow of the stimulus. If the sentence its used in would not make sense being a premise, then it most likely isn't being used that way. JY touches on this exact issue in the core curriculum.