English Language & Usage Asked on March 12, 2021
I just watched a movie in which someone more or less says “Oh yeah, with him dead, you want me hacking the computer”
My question: to what extent can I use this construction? Is it grammatically right to say “with them mad at me, I wanna do it”
This is a verbless clause as complement to with where with is followed by subject + predicate, but with no verb in the predicate (CaGEL p1267). It is also possible to use without as head of the PP:
They were wandering around [without any clothes on]
With and without do not license finite complements, but non-finites are found in addition to verbless forms:
Without her realising it, Fabia's thoughts drifted back to the Gloucestershire home
Without anything said, Tuathal turned in the saddle and held up a flat palm for silence
The predicate could be a gerund-participial, a past participial, NP, PP or AdjP.
Answered by DW256 on March 12, 2021
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