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An example `Because of the noise, she became startled/surprised.`

Would it be something like `おとから、かのじょはおどろきになった.`? Where I use `から` for
because.
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Using because when the reason isn't a sentence?
Noun + から (not a real sentence) can be used to show the noun is the cause of
basis for what comes after, used in sentences like:

ちょっとした不注意から大きな事故になることも少なくない。(big accidents are often caused by just a little
carelessness)( example taken fromニューアプローチ中上級日本語 p165)

So it is used for cause and effect, but more for showing the basis of
judgement, or describing phenomena in general. I think for a simple kind of
'she was surprised by the noise/because of the noise' type situation it may be
more natural to use で instead
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No, you can't compose it like that. Since おと itself is a mere object and not
~~an event or~~ nature of something, the combination with から doesn't mean
reason.

Instead, it should be おと（の せい）で びっくりした.
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