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Navitasan Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

With

Can one use:
1-I ate Tim's cookies with raisons and chocolate chips.
instead of:
I ate Tim's cookies which had raisons and chocolate chips.

Is 'with raisons and chocolate chips' restrictive in 1?
Does it imply that Tim had/had made other kinds of cookies?

Gratefully,
Navi.
  

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From the structure, (1) reads to me as if the raisins and chocolate chips were a separate accompaniment to the cookies. It's only because this seems unlikely in practice that I would question whether it was actually meant. The most usual way of saying this would be "I ate Tim's raisin-and-chocolate-chip cookies".

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  • From the structure, (1) reads to me as if the raisins and chocolate chips were a separate accompaniment to the cookies.
  • It's only because this seems unlikely in practice that I would question whether it was actually meant.
  • The most usual way of saying this would be "I ate Tim's raisin-and-chocolate-chip cookies".
  • Some people might dispense with the hyphens.
  • Spelling: "raisin".
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From the structure, (1) reads to me as if the raisins and chocolate chips were a separate accompaniment to the cookies. It's only because this seems unlikely in practice that I would question whether it was actually meant. The most usual way of saying this would be "I ate Tim's raisin-and-chocolate-chip cookies". Some people might dispense with the hyphens.

Spelling: "raisin".
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