{"id":16233,"date":"2013-01-09T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=16233"},"modified":"2013-01-04T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T14:20:07","slug":"gmat-preposition-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-preposition-with\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Preposition “with”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses.\u00a0 In the previous\u00a0preposition article<\/a>, we talked about the proposition \"to\".\u00a0 Here, we will look, at the preposition \"with.\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The preposition \"with\"<\/h2>\n

The word \"with\" is a preposition.\u00a0 This means, it must be followed by a noun --- or by something playing the role of a noun.\u00a0\u00a0 This latter category includes\u00a0gerunds<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0substantive clauses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1) Despite an earlier attempt by\u00a0Chancourois<\/a>, historians of science general credit\u00a0Dmitri Mendeleev<\/a>\u00a0with formulating the Periodic Table of the Elements.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0 The Federal Judge argued that his recent controversial ruling was consistent with what the framers of the\u00a0US Constitution<\/a>\u00a0thought about a right to\u00a0privacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In sentence #1, the object of \"with\" is a gerund phrase, and in sentence #2, the object is a substantive clause.\u00a0\u00a0 Incidentally, both of these are exemplary of idioms involving the word \"with.\"<\/p>\n

The proposition \"with\", as an ordinary preposition, can carry a variety of connotations:<\/p>\n

3) I fixed the table with hammer and nails. (indicates\u00a0means<\/em>)<\/p>\n

4) I fixed the table with haste. (indicates\u00a0manner<\/em>)<\/p>\n

5) I fixed the table with my friend\u00a0Chris<\/a>. (indicates\u00a0accompaniment<\/em>)<\/p>\n

The idioms below reflect this diversity of usages.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Verbs + \"with\"<\/h2>\n

Some verbs require the word \"with.\"\u00a0 Here's a list of the most common verbs that require \"with\".<\/p>\n

agree with<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

collaborate with<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

comply with<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

credit A with B<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

enamored with<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

provide with<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

sympathize with<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idioms involving \"agree<\/strong>\", \"collaborate<\/strong>\", and \"sympathize<\/strong>\" are most like the accompaniment use of \"with\", in #5 above: in all three of these, the object of \"with\" is a person with whom some has some kind of affiliation or affinity, or that person's view.<\/p>\n

6) The Human Resources Director does not agree with the CFO's plans for redesigning the employee retirement options.<\/p>\n

7)\u00a0Brahms<\/a>\u00a0collaborated with the famous violinist\u00a0Joseph Joachim<\/a>\u00a0in composing his\u00a0Violin Concerto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8) Despite a lifetime of opposition, the nun sympathized with her gravely ill opponent.<\/p>\n

Similar to these is the idiom involving \"enamored<\/strong>.\"\u00a0 To be \"enamored with\" someone or something is to really like it: it has a connotation of something like romantic infatuation or passionate enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

8) For many years,\u00a0Yeats<\/a>\u00a0was enamored with Maud Gonne, who rejected Yeats' marriage proposals on four different occasions.<\/p>\n

9) Although\u00a0Jefferson<\/a>\u00a0was enamored with the idea of liberty and\u00a0equal rights<\/a>\u00a0for all, the Southern delegates to the Continental Congress were successful in demanding that phrases condemning slavery be removed from the\u00a0Declaration of Independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The idiom involving \"provide<\/strong>\" is most like the\u00a0means<\/em>\u00a0example, #3 above.\u00a0\u00a0 Here, the object of the proposition \"with\" is a physical or metaphorical support given to someone.<\/p>\n

10) The resupply station provided the hungry soldiers with much-needed food.<\/p>\n

11) A young\u00a0Reagan<\/a>\u00a0secretly provided the\u00a0HUAC<\/a>\u00a0with damning information about his fellow actors.<\/p>\n

12)\u00a0Aquinas<\/a>'\u00a0Summa Theologica<\/em>\u00a0provided\u00a0Dante<\/a>\u00a0with a vast philosophical system within which to frame his famous\u00a0drama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The idiom involving both \"credit<\/strong>\" and \"comply<\/strong>\" is somewhat analogous to the\u00a0manner<\/em>\u00a0example, #4 above, only insofar as the object of \"with\" is necessarily something abstract. \u00a0\u00a0In the idiom \"to credit A with B<\/strong>\", A is the person who receives the credit, and B is the quality or accomplishment attributed to the person.<\/p>\n

13) Even his political foes credit the prime minister with exceptional integrity.<\/p>\n

14) Although\u00a0Gregor Mendel<\/a>\u00a0enjoyed scant scientific recognition, current biologists universally credit him with the discovery of\u00a0genetics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the idiom to \"comply with X<\/strong>\", the X is a law, a rule, or some other abstract authoritative principle.<\/p>\n

15) The CEO fired the vice president for repeatedly failing to comply with company policy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Comparisons and other relationships<\/h2>\n

Here are three idioms that, in one way or another, are used in how we would compare or relate two things.<\/p>\n

compare A with B<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

contrast A with B<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

consistent with<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the many ways to construct a grammatically correct comparison is to use the verb \"compare\" with the preposition with.<\/p>\n

16) Early in his career,\u00a0Darryl Strawberry<\/a>'s swing was compared with\u00a0Ted William<\/a>'s.<\/p>\n

17) Compared with most Old World wines, California wines are simpler and more fruit dominant.<\/p>\n

This latter form, using the participle \"compared\" + \"with\", is common on the GMAT Sentence Correction --- \"Compared with A, B<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026\" --- and of course, A and B must be in parallel.<\/p>\n

For the word \"contrast\", we need to be careful.\u00a0 If we are actively discussing a person who is performing the contrast, then we can say this person \"contrasts A with B.\"<\/p>\n

18) In the novel\u00a0Pudd'nhead Wilson<\/em><\/a>, Mark Twain contrasts the utter privilege enjoyed by the aristocracy in the antebellum South with arbitrary and dismal fate of slaves.<\/p>\n

Many times, especially on GMAT Sentence Correction, the sentence forms a contrast and who is doing the contrast is not important.\u00a0\u00a0 By idiom and unlike with \"compare\", we do\u00a0not<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0use the participle form of the verb<\/p>\n

Contrasted with A, B ...<\/p>\n

That will always be wrong.\u00a0 The correct idiom is \"In contrast with A, B \u2026<\/strong>\"<\/p>\n

19) In contrast with the single-book scriptures of each of the three great\u00a0Western Religions<\/a>, the Pali Canon, the standard collection of the scriptures of\u00a0Theravada<\/a>\u00a0Buddhism, easily would fill a large bookcase, although ironically, Buddhism is much less text-based than are its Western counterparts.<\/p>\n

The idiom involving the adjective \"consistent\" is similar, although discussion of consistency differs from comparisons\u00a0per se<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 When we say\u00a0A is consistent with B<\/strong>, we generally mean that B is some larger system or set of rules, and A is something that \"fits into\" this larger system.<\/p>\n

20) In\u00a0Brown vs. the Board of Education<\/a>, the Supreme Court found that legally enforced segregation was not consistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the\u00a0Fourteen Amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

21) Euclid's fifth postulate, the notorious\u00a0Parallel Postulate<\/a>, is consistent with the other four postulates, although it cannot be deduced independently from them.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Summary<\/h2>\n

Know the idioms given in bold in this post.\u00a0 As always with idioms, read, read,\u00a0read<\/a>!\u00a0\u00a0 Search for the idioms in this post in context.\u00a0 You understand English best when you understand it in context.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This post was written by Mike McGarry, GMAT expert at Magoosh<\/a>, and originally posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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