ow‧ing to preposition

ow‧ing to
formal because of something:
Owing to a lack of funds, the project will not continue next year.
Flight BA213 has been delayed owing to fog.


owing to, due to, because of, thanks to
Owing to and due to are slightly formal. They are often used in official notices and public statements
• Owing to bad weather, this morning's flight will be delayed.
• He is retiring due to ill health.

!! Owing to and due to are prepositions (they come immediately before a noun). They are not conjunctions (they cannot connect two parts of a sentence)
• I had to wait hours because the plane was delayed (NOT I had to wait hours owing to the plane was delayed).


In spoken English, it is more usual to use because of than owing to or due to
• All my clothes got wet because of the storm (NOT owing to the storm).
Thanks to is used to explain why something good has happened
• Thanks to the success of his first album, he is now a wealthy man.

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/owing-to

though conjunction

used to introduce a statement that makes the main statement coming after it seem surprising, unlikely, or unexpected [= although]:

Though she's almost 40, she still plans to compete.

Pascal went ahead with the experiment even though he knew it was dangerous.

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/though_1

Cloze Test

• Cloze Test soruları nasıl Çözülür? 

 Bu sorularda önemli olan unsur parçanın tamamını anlamak değildir. Boşluğun verildiği cümleyi anlamak yeterlidir. Eğer bize bağlaç soruluyorsa iki ayrı cümleyi de anlamak gerekmektedir.

 Bu sorunun bir diğer özelliği çok basit bir ifadeyi bile bize sorabilir ancak karmaşık bir formda sunarak bize sorar.

• Bu soruları rahat bir şekilde cevaplayabilmek için bol bol parça çalışması yapmamız gerekmektedir. Okuduğumuz her cümleyi gramer ve kelime olarak incelemeliyiz.

 http://www.kpds.org/taktikler_cloze_test.asp