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Cause and Effect

This document provides examples and exercises to help understand cause and effect relationships. It includes sentences with identified causes and effects, incomplete sentences to fill in the missing cause or effect, a passage to identify causes and effects in, and exercises to link causes to multiple effects and write a paragraph explaining an event with its causes and effects.

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Cause and Effect

This document provides examples and exercises to help understand cause and effect relationships. It includes sentences with identified causes and effects, incomplete sentences to fill in the missing cause or effect, a passage to identify causes and effects in, and exercises to link causes to multiple effects and write a paragraph explaining an event with its causes and effects.

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CAUSE AND EFFECT

a) Underline the cause and highlight its effect in each of the following
sentences.
1. After the dog bit her, we had to take her to the hospital.
2. Her computer stopped working due to a virus.
3. The police arrested him because he committed a crime.
4. She set fire to the curtain first before the whole house burnt down.
5. If she gets accepted to university, she will become a doctor.
6. Unless she finds a replacement, she will be fired.
7. Owing to the lack of customers, the restaurant closed down this week.
8. Since she is scared of clowns, she never goes to the circus.
9. He passed his first year at university; as a result, his parents bought him
a car.
10.She is lazy, therefore she has failed all of her subjects.

(b) Complete the sentence by filling in a cause or an effect as required.


Circle what was needed to complete each sentence: cause or effect.

1. Melanie did not go to school because ______________________________


___________________________________________. cause/effect
2. Due to ________________________________________________, Jason
was late for work again. cause/effect
3. Since Zinzi bought all the chocolate in the shop, Sarah ________________
__________________________. cause/effect
4. If ___________________________________________________, there
won’t be enough space in the car. cause/effect
5. Khulani works late every Friday so that _________________________
___________________________. cause/effect
6. Since Jamie’s parents found out about the party he hosted without their
permission, ______________________________cause/effect
7. Owing to _________________________________________________, the
tickets were all sold out. cause/effect
8. In view of Mandisa’s fear of heights, _______________________________
__________________________. cause/effect
9. As a result of Thabo’s silence, ____________________________________
__________________________________________. cause/effect
10. Jenny shouted at Mark first ______________________________________
_____________________________________________. cause/effect
(c) Read through the following passage, underlining causes and
highlighting effects.
I woke up late this morning because my alarm clock did not ring. As a
result, I had to rush to get ready for school and I made a huge mess all over
the house. I missed the bus because I had to go back home to fetch my
cellphone. Consequently, I was late for school, and my lecturer was not
pleased with me at all. Due to the fact that my day had been going so badly,
I was in a bad mood and I shouted at my friends. Since I was in such a bad
mood, they didn’t want to hang out with me and they left. After they left, my
day only got worse. In view of all that happened today, I’ve decided that I
need two alarm clocks instead of one, to make sure I wake up on time in the
mornings. Now, tabulate your causes and the related effects using a table
similar to the one below:

eg. My alarm clock did not ring. I woke up late.

(d) You have been given a cause and its effects. Link the cause and its
effects using a few sentences. Remember to use your linking words.
1. CAUSE: terrorist attack; bomb explosion
EFFECT: people killed; families grieving; multiple funerals
2. CAUSE: global warming
EFFECT: heat waves in summer; people fainting; overcrowding in hospitals
(e) Write a paragraph in which you explain something that happened to you
in terms of its causes and effects.

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