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TeacherJapan Posted 5 years ago
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How does “with” in this sentence work?

It’s not true that art and music are processed in the right hemisphere of our brain, with language and mathematics in the left.

Is this a similar construction to the one below?

He looked at me with tears in his eyes.

  

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teacherJapan It’s not true that art and music are processed in the right hemisphere of our brain, with language and mathematics in the left. Is this a similar construction to the one below? He looked at me with tears in his eyes .

  • teacherJapan It’s not true that art and music are processed in the right hemisphere of our brain, with language and mathematics in the left.
  • Is this a similar construction to the one below?
  • He looked at me with tears in his eyes .
  • Here 'with' basically means 'and', but other paraphrases are possible, such as It's not true that art and music are processed in the right hemisphere of our brain while (in contrast) language and mathematics are processed in the left hemisphere.
  • It has a family resemblance to the 'with ...
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teacherJapan

It’s not true that art and music are processed in the right hemisphere of our brain, with language and mathematics in the left.

Is this a similar construction to the one below?

He looked at me with tears in his eyes.

Here 'with' basically means 'and', but other paraphrases are possible, such as

I

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