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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Using "with" to join a non-restrictive clause
?Most customers are over 40, with a significant proportion of housewives/retirees
Is the sentence above grammatically correct? Can someone explain to me what kind of sentence stucture this is? Thank you sooo much!!
Is the sentence above grammatically correct? Can someone explain to me what kind of sentence stucture this is? Thank you sooo much!!
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Anonymous Most customers are over 40, with a significant proportion of housewives/retirees I judge it as only borderline grammatical. It's a mangled version of a with ... being ...
- Anonymous Most customers are over 40, with a significant proportion of housewives/retirees I judge it as only borderline grammatical.
- It's a mangled version of a with ...
- being ...
- participial clause.
- with a significant proportion (of them) being housewives or retirees.
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AnonymousMost customers are over 40, with a significant proportion of housewives/retireesI judge it as only borderline grammatical. It's a mangled version of a with ... being ... participial clause.
with a significant proportion (of them) being housewives or retirees.
There is another version without with
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Thank you for the reply, CJ! How can I make this sentece stronger?
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I am also particularly intereted in the usage of "with" here. What purpose does it have? Thank you.
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Most customers are over 40, and a significant proportion of them are housewives or retirees.
Most customers are over 40. A significant proportion of these are housewives or retirees.
CJ
Most customers are over 40. A significant proportion of these are housewives or retirees.
CJ
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