Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog » since/because http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business Is your grammar as good as your code? Thu, 23 May 2013 20:41:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Quiz: Writing for business — since or because? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/quiz-writing-for-business-since-or-because/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/quiz-writing-for-business-since-or-because/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:28:36 +0000 Ivy Wigmore http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/quiz-writing-for-business-since-or-because/ raid.jpg Which is correct?
The project impact analysis found that _______ RAID implementation increased the mean time between failures, there was greater fault tolerance.
a. because
b. since

Answer: a

Explanation:
Although since can be used to mean because, if used in this sentence it would make the meaning less clear. That construction could mean that there was greater fault tolerance in the time elapsing after RAID implementation, without making it clear that the greater fault tolerance was a result of the RAID implementation.

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