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The Chinese government has signalled an end to the human consumption of dogs, with the agriculture ministry today releasing a draft policy that would forbid canine meat.
Is "with the agriculture... meat" a prepositional phrase?
When do we use this type of preposition phrase with "with"?
Is the prepositional phrase functioning adverbially?
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The Chinese government has signalled an end to the human consumption of dogs, with the agriculture ministry today releasing a draft policy that would forbid canine meat . Yes: "with" is a preposition so the underlined element is a preposition phrase. "With" is typically used with the notion of accompaniment, as in Ed went into town with Li z where the PP "with Liz" is a comitative adjunct.
- The Chinese government has signalled an end to the human consumption of dogs, with the agriculture ministry today releasing a draft policy that would forbid canine meat .
- Yes: "with" is a preposition so the underlined element is a preposition phrase.
- "With" is typically used with the notion of accompaniment, as in Ed went into town with Li z where the PP "with Liz" is a comitative adjunct.
- I'd certainly call the with PP in your example an adjunct (your adverbial ) , though I'm not entirely certain that it belongs to the comitative subtype, especially since comitative "with" takes noun phrases as complement, not clauses.
- There's also a sense in which you could talk of result, so that's a possible alternative.
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The Chinese government has signalled an end to the human consumption of dogs, with the agriculture ministry today releasing a draft policy that would forbid canine meat.
Yes: "with" is a preposition so the underlined element is a preposition phrase.
"With" is typically used with the notion of accompaniment, as in Ed went into town with Liz wh
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