Prefix with Usage Details

PrefixUsage Details

 

It is a very useful prefix and its usage is complicated. The following usage is worth noting:

1.
Representation, means, or tools (= Yes, use). Be careful not to use the wrong combination due to the influence of the meaning of Chinese. For example, "in English" is used to in English, instead of with English.

2.
When connected to certain abstract nouns, the function is equivalent to an adverbs. For example:

With care = carefully seriously

With kindness = kindly

With joy = joyfully

With anger = angrily angry

With sorrow = sorrowfully sadly

With frequency = easily

With delight = delightedly

With great fluency = very fluently fluent

3.
It can be used with the virtual tone as needed. For example:

With more money I wocould be able to buy it. I can afford it if I have more money.

With better equipment, we coshould have finished the job even sooner.
If the device is better, we need to finish the job faster.

4.
Comparison with and as: both can represent "with", but the former is a prefix, followed by a noun or a pronoun; the latter is a conjunction used to guide a sentence. Comparison:

He will improve as he grows older. He will make progress as he grows older.

People's ideas change with the change of the times.
The times have changed and people's concepts have changed.

5.
The compound structure "with + Object + object complementing" is a very useful structure. It is mainly used as an adverbial in a sentence to indicate accompanied, cause, time, condition, and method; the object supplements can be nouns, adjectives, adverbs, current word segmentation, past word segmentation, infinitus, and prepositional phrases. For example:

(1) With + Object + adjective

He often sleeps with the windows open. He often sleeps in the window.

Don't speak with your mouth full. Don't talk with your mouth full.

(2) With + Object +
Adverbs

He stood before his teacher with his head down. He head down
Stand in front of the teacher.

He was lying on the bed with all his clothes on.
He and his clothes lie in bed.

(3) With + Object +
Prefix phrase

She said good-bye with tears in her eyes. She said goodbye with tears.

The man was asleep with his head on his arms. The head is asleep with his arm on his head.

(4) With + Object + current Word Segmentation

He fell asleep with the lamp burning. He fell asleep without turning off the lights.

I won't be able to go on holiday with my mother being ill.
I cannot go on vacation because my mother is ill.

(5) With + Object +
Past Word Segmentation

He sat there with his eyes closed. He sat there with closed eyes.

All the afternoon he worked with the door locked.
He locked the door to work in the room all afternoon.

(6) with + Object +
Verb infinitus

I can't go out with all these clothes to wash. To wash these clothes,
I cannot go out.

With such good cadres to carry out of the Party's policy we feel safe.
We are reassured that such good cadres have implemented the Party's policy.

(7) With + Object +
Term

He died with his daughter yet a schoolgirl. When he died, his daughter was still a primary school student.

 

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