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Sentence starts with "WITH"

English Language & Usage Asked on December 21, 2020

I have come across many sentence following the given structure
{ WITH+SUBJECT+VERB-ING }
This type of sentence starts with "WITH"
Take an Example : with many of tourist returning from the site due to bad weather we decided not to visit there.
Can anyone elaborate this structure of sentence and make me understand.

2 Answers

"With" is a preposition, so starting a sentence with it is not "natural". In your example, "with many of tourist returning from the sure due to bad weather" is a prepositional phrase that acts as an adverb modifying "decided". The "natural" place to put an adverb is next to the verb it is modifying, but "with" has developed the meaning as implying causation when it precedes the verb that it modifying, so this phrase is put in front to give that meaning. When an adverbial phrase is moved to the front like this, it should be followed by a comma. Also, "many of tourist" is not grammatical. Perhaps "many a tourist" is meant. It could also be "many of the tourists". Also, I would put "to not visit" rather than "not to visit"; the latter seems to be motivated by the idea that there's something wrong with "split infinitives". Also, "due to" is here being used as an adverb, and there is a school of thought that says that it should be used as an adjective (that is, only be used to modify nouns or be the subject complement of a copula).

Answered by Acccumulation on December 21, 2020

This is starting the sentence with a subordinate clause. It takes some doing to get that part of the sentence from the back to the front but it can be done. As you may have noticed it is not attractive. The purpose of it is to make the sentence seem more urgent. In addition, the sentence sounds as if the conversation is already underway so it can draw interest to the subject quickly; always desirable in advertising.

Wise and thoughtful recommendations against doing this as well as fixes are found here: www.dailywritingtips.com/avoid-beginning-a-sentence-with-with/

With that you don't need anymore.

Answered by Elliot on December 21, 2020

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