> でもそのアパートは高いです。
>
> ブラッドはもっとお金を貯めようと決心します。
>
> それで彼は来年移ることができるからです。

Context: Brad is looking for a new apartment because his current one is too
small. In それで彼は来年移ることができるからです I don't see the point of から. If I take it out of
the sentence, the meaning is still the same.
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grammar particles causation particle-から
Not sure what this から is for
> If I take [から] out of the sentence, the meaning is still the same.

Not exactly. In translation, both から and それで will take on the meaning of
'because' in the English translation. This gives the effect of から appearing to
have no real function here. However, それで is a weaker form of 'because,' and から
in this sentence relies on the wider context of the preceding sentences.
Therefore, if you were to remove から from the sentence in question, you not
only loose the strength of the cause/effect association, but you also what the
real cause and effect are.

In effect, we're looking at multiple causations in this sentence.

[それで](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%85%B6%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A7) as defined by
Jisho.org means `and; thereupon; because of that.` [Other
sources](http://maggiesensei.com/2011/11/18/request-
lesson-%E3%81%9D%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A7-%E3%81%A0%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89sorede-dakara/)
also include the meaning `then; so; as a result; that’s why.` I personally
like to think of それで as the word
[それ](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%85%B6%E3%82%8C) followed by the particle で.

[The で particle has several functions](https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-
grammar/particle-de-expressing-supplementary-information/), but one of them is
to express reason or causation. Therefore, when you attach the particle で to
それ, you get the literal meaning of `that/it causes.` In the context of the
sentence you've included, my personal take on a literal translation would be
'by reason of that situation/motivation.'

In short, それで explains what follows as happening by reason or cause of what
preceded it. Hence, in English, we would typically translate it as meaning
`because of that.`

から, on the other hand is a hard 'because,' establishing a stronger sense of
causation than それで. からです is the Japanese equivalent of the English `it is
because.`

Lets break down the sentence and see if we can make sense of all these moving
parts:

> それで彼は来年移ることができるからです。

This will take context to the two other sentences, though I have not included
them:

**それ:** This points to the second sentence, or Brad's commitment/decision to
save money.

**で:** marks reason/cause

**彼は:** brad

**来年:** next year

**移ることができる:** able to move

**からです:** it is because - 'it' in this case actually refers to the first
sentence saying that other apartment is expensive. Note that this particular
usage of から relies _heavily_ on the context of what has been said before this
sentence.

Bringing it all together, I get the following (liberal) translation including
context instead of `it` or `that`:

> That apartment is expensive because Brad's commitment to save money has made
> it so that he is able to move.

Shortening the sentence:

> It's expensive because his commitment has made it so that he is able to
> move.

それで in this sentence actually comes into play in the phrase `...his commitment
has made it so that...` while から in this sentence comes into play with the
phrase `It's expensive because...` Therefore, this sentence actually has two
causation relationships happening, and needs both それで and から to say what it
does.
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