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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

With it or with it on it/them?

Hi. Please help. Could we write like these?

1. (the shirt has numerous small imprinted pictures of strawberries in the front and back)

He is wearing a shirt with a strawberry print all over the front and back.

2. (the shirt with a school logo in black)

He is wearing a shirt with a school logo (on it?).

3. (jeans with holes in the knees)

He is wearing jeans with holes (in them?).
  

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1. He is wearing a strawberry-print shirt. 2.

— Mister Micawber

  • 1.
  • He is wearing a strawberry-print shirt.
  • 2.
  • He is wearing a shirt with a black school logo (on it).
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1. He is wearing a strawberry-print shirt.

2. He is wearing a shirt with a black school logo (on it).

3. He is wearing jeans with holes in the knees. He is wearing worn jeans.
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Hi. Thank you. I was wondering if there were any difference between putting the adjective "visible" before the noun (attributively) or after the noun (predicatively) for this kind of phrase pattern. Thank you in advance.

He is wearing jeans with holes in the knees, with threads visible.

He is wearing jeans with holes in the knees, with visible threads.
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Hello MM,

Coud you say :

... with holes at the knees?

Thank you
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I was wondering if there were any difference between putting the adjective "visible" before the noun (attributively) or after the noun (postposed) for this kind of phrase pattern: with threads visible; with visible threads.-- No difference in meaning; it is a style decision. Here, both styles are really too formal for the context.

Coud you say :... with ho
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Anything that's been deliberately worn or damaged for effect (jeans, furniture, whatever) is called distressed.
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