Timeline for Why this sentence used "with" instead of "of"
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| May 3, 2018 at 10:28 | answer | added | Mari | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 10:29 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Nov 26, 2015 at 8:25 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Nov 23, 2015 at 5:52 | answer | added | Praveen | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 5:44 | comment | added | Jim | No, it doesn't seem right. But I'm not sure what the sentence is trying to say in general so it is hard to say what might be better. ... Oh I see what it's trying to say now. How 'bout: You may lose the contest due to the weight disadvantage your dogs will have [against their opponents] | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 5:44 | comment | added | deadrat | With means accompanying; of means belonging to or associated. In either case the sentence means that a weight disadvantage will obtain with this choice of dogs. They both sound fine to me. (The prepositions, not the dogs) | |
| Nov 23, 2015 at 5:37 | history | asked | suchsuddenrush | CC BY-SA 3.0 |