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Azz Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
With their allegiance
a. But Locke himself tolerated some intolerance—toward Catholics with their allegiance to Rome and toward atheists because they had no religion to be tolerated!
The text can be found here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=QajfAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&dq=%22catholics+with+their+allegiance+to+rome%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NHK_VPXIE82ANtaigIAG&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22catholics%20with%20their%20allegiance%20to%20rome%22&f=false
Would you say that 'with' means 'because of' in that sentence?
b. I hate him with his pompous manners and his arrogant talk.
Does 'with' mean 'because of' in (b)?
Maybe it just points out a quality he has?
Maybe it both cases 'with' denotes a characteristic they have, but which does play a major part in arousing a feeling or an attitude towards them.
Many thanks,
The text can be found here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=QajfAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&dq=%22catholics+with+their+allegiance+to+rome%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NHK_VPXIE82ANtaigIAG&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22catholics%20with%20their%20allegiance%20to%20rome%22&f=false
Would you say that 'with' means 'because of' in that sentence?
b. I hate him with his pompous manners and his arrogant talk.
Does 'with' mean 'because of' in (b)?
Maybe it just points out a quality he has?
Maybe it both cases 'with' denotes a characteristic they have, but which does play a major part in arousing a feeling or an attitude towards them.
Many thanks,
Top answer
It doesn't seem quite as specific as "because". azz Maybe it both cases 'with' denotes a characteristic they have, but which does play a major part in arousing a feeling or an attitude towards them. This seems reasonable.
- It doesn't seem quite as specific as "because".
- azz Maybe it both cases 'with' denotes a characteristic they have, but which does play a major part in arousing a feeling or an attitude towards them.
- This seems reasonable.
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It doesn't seem quite as specific as "because".
azzMaybe it both cases 'with' denotes a characteristic they have, but which does play a major part in arousing a feeling or an attitude towards them.This seems reasonable.
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