5-1 Expressing Cause and Effect

In English 125, you looked at some linking devices that can help you express cause and effect in your writing. In this lesson, you’ll learn some longer grammatical structures and expressions to help you write effectively about these relationships, which is a common task in many different types of writing.

There are several different grammatical forms you can build with the word “so” to communicate various cause-and-effect relationships.

This form is used to describe the reason why a situation, action, or event (a cause) creates a particular result.