grammar - Confusion in using "due to"


I usually meet "due to" usage in a document or conversation, but in different ways. I did some research and found out that "due to" is adjectival.


Thus, the correct sentence should be:



The cancellation was due to rain



Instead of:



It was cancelled due to rain



But when I looked it up in Longman Dictionary, I found:



She has been absent from work due to illness



Can anybody tell me why the above sentence is correct?




Comments

Popular posts from this blog

verbs - "Baby is creeping" vs. "baby is crawling" in AmE

commas - Does this sentence have too many subjunctives?

time - English notation for hour, minutes and seconds

grammatical number - Use of lone apostrophe for plural?

etymology - Origin of "s--t eating grin"

etymology - Where does the phrase "doctored" originate?

word choice - Which is the correct spelling: “fairy” or “faerie”?