Can "that" be an equivalent of "because"?
I'm confused by the sentence:"My garden's looking lovely now that the daffodils are in flower". I can't understand the function of "that" in this sentence. Is it used here in the meaning "because"? Besides I didn't get what the addition of 's to the word "garden" mean. The sense of the sentence slips away from me in general.
Please, someone, explain it to me.
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because it a pretty close meaning. "now that" can also mean something like "since." in this sentence the 's is added to 'garden' to mean is... what i find most bizarre is the use of 'in flower' rather than 'in bloom.' i've never heard or seen that phrase but i'm american and it could be british.
so the meaning is: my garden is looking lovely since the daffodils are in bloom
or simpler: my garden looks good because the flowers are open.
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Christie's answer is good.
One thing that might help to understand the use of 'that' is if you look at it this way: "The situation in my garden is that the daffodils are in flower. Now that it is so, it looks beautiful." This is definitely not how you would say it, but I am breaking down the sentence to try to show you how the "that" makes sense in here.
I hope that helps.
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Thank you very much. You've helped me a lot.
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