WMUR Channel 9 on MSN: Car crash causes propane leak near Sandown Road in Hampstead Yahoo: HVAC leak causes brief evacuation at Manheim Township High School in Lancaster County HVAC leak causes brief evacuation at Manheim Township High School in Lancaster County Yahoo: Suspected gas leak causes evacuation, early dismissal at Hershey High School KING 5 on MSN: Natural gas leak causes light rail disruptions, temporary evacuations of nearby buildings in Columbia City Natural gas leak causes light rail disruptions, temporary evacuations of nearby buildings in Columbia City ABC7 New York on MSN: Basement explosion causes gas leak, Hazmat situation in Belleville, NJ The Seattle Times: Natural gas leak in South Seattle causes evacuation, disrupts traffic The News Tribune on MSN: Gas leak in Pierce County causes street closures, evacuations In both situations there is a lack of resources which causes people to die. This sentence should be read as follows: there's a lack of some resources, and it is this lack that's causing deaths. In effect, without those resources people die; the resources help avoid death.

Understanding the Context

Unfortunately, there's a lack of those resources. This sentence makes sense, and is what you probably want to write. grammar - When should I use "cause" and "causes"? - English Language ...

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Or: Is this the only factor that causes such tragedies? In that form, the singular factor matches with the verb causes. Your sentence mixes the plural rooms with the singular factor, making it hard for you to figure out which form the verb cause (s) should take. (This isn’t necessarily ungrammatical, but sometimes this can make a sentence ...