It snowed the following night. You have to go to work but you also realized, so did everyone else. Now, you know the thing about snow, it's sleek and you could easily loose traction and get into an accident. The plows have also yet to come out to shovle it off the main roads. Nevertheless, you head off to work. The speed limit is normally 45 mph but you're barely hitting 30 mph. You decide to play it safe but suddenly, a car comes skidding out of no where as its wheels screetch and other drivers brake hard, trying to stop only to end up sliding themselves.
The person was obviously speeding due to how fast the said car as skidding and how much control they had.
Cause and effect.
Effect 1- It snowed. The cause, the roads were sleek.
Effect 2- Because it snow and because it was sleek, the cause was cars lose traction.
Effect 3- Cars lose traction causes cars to slide.
Effect 4- Cars sliding causes accidents.
Cause and effects form chain reactions with each other. In a sense, it's similar to the saying that ever action has an equal and opposite reaction. Personally, I really don't know why they are 'classified' in different terms. They all create a chain of reactions and events that follow after another.
Such as speeding when it stormed. The opens up a whole can of worms. Cause and Effects or Actions nad Reactions are a part of daily life and even in writing by leading to events in a storyline or the structer of a paper from point A to point B and so on.
Because of this 'reactions', it allows authors and readers to understand how the events unfolded and why they lead to the next events through transaction statements that state the cause of what the effect was or the effect then the cause.
Either-or.
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I loved how clear you made your example, especially by breaking it down. You made it very simple and easy to understand.
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