There should beless sugar in that recipe.
This year there arefewer teachers at the school.Using the possessive form
‘Theirs’ and ‘yours’ never require an apostrophe. They are
possessive pronouns.
That house istheirs.
This book isyours.Giving a reason
A sentence containing the words ‘the reason being’ is wrong.
You do not need to include the word ‘being’.
We are sorry to be late. The reason (being) is that we had
an accident.You could, of course, condense the sentence to:
We are late because we had an accident.or
The reason we are late is that we had an accident.In some cases ‘because’ could be replaced by ‘that’.
The reason he was tired wasbecause he had been driving
all day.This could be:
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