How to Recognize Causality

A cause and effect relationship has a signature characteristic—the cause makes
the effect happen. Thus, there is an identifiable type of expression used to
indicate that a causal relationship is present. The list on the following page
contains a number of the phrases used by the makers of the LSAT to introduce
causality, and you should be on the lookout for those when reading Logical
Reasoning stimuli. The following terms often introduce a cause and effect relationship:

caused by
because of
responsible for
reason for
leads to
induced by
promoted by
determined by
produced by
product of
played a role in
was a factor in
is an effect of
 
Because of the variety of the English language, there are many alternate phrases
that can introduce causality. However, those phrases would all have the similar
characteristic of suggesting that one event made another occur.