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Guest  +  80398 Fri, 11 Mar 05 01:20 PM
What part of speech is the word "because" ?
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Mister Micawber  +  80405 Fri, 11 Mar 05 01:51 PM

It is usually a conjunction, as in 'I lost my job because I always came to work late'. It is considered a compound preposition in the phrase 'because of': 'I lost my job because of my consistent lateness'.

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