5 exercises — practise introducing a known, shared reason with "seeing as".
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Which sentence correctly uses "seeing as" to introduce a reason both parties already know, in a standup update?
"Seeing as the staging environment is down, let's move today's demo to tomorrow" correctly uses "seeing as" directly followed by the clause giving the known reason. Option B wrongly combines "seeing that" and "as" together. Option C inserts the unnecessary preposition "of". Option D reverses the word order into a non-standard "as seeing".
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Which sentence correctly uses "seeing that" as an alternative to "seeing as" in a code review comment?
"Seeing that this function is already covered by unit tests, we can skip a manual QA pass" correctly uses "seeing that" followed directly by the subject and verb of the reason clause. Option B substitutes the wrong word "then" for "that". Option C misplaces "this" before "that". Option D wrongly adds the pronoun "it" before "seeing that", which is not part of the fixed phrase.
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Which sentence correctly places the "seeing as" clause at the end of the sentence instead of the beginning?
"We can ship the hotfix without a full regression suite, seeing as the change only touches logging" correctly attaches the "seeing as" reason clause after a comma at the end of the sentence. Option B substitutes "so" for "as". Option C adds a redundant "so" alongside "as". Option D moves "as" to the wrong position at the end of the clause.
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes "seeing as" (a known, shared reason) from "since" (a more neutral, general reason) in a retro note?
"Seeing as everyone on the call already agreed the metric was flawed, we dropped it from the dashboard" correctly uses the full fixed phrase "seeing as" once, at the start of the reason clause. Option B incorrectly merges "since" and "as". Option C incorrectly merges "seeing" and "since". Option D adds a redundant second "as" at the end of the clause.
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Which sentence correctly uses "seeing as" with a negative observation as the shared reason, in a Slack message about a blocked ticket?
"Seeing as none of the reviewers are available today, let's merge this first thing tomorrow" correctly uses "seeing as" followed by a complete finite clause with a correctly negated subject, "none of the reviewers". Option B adds a redundant double negative with "isn't". Option C incorrectly inserts "not" inside the fixed phrase. Option D uses the non-finite "being" instead of a finite verb, which "seeing as" requires.