gmatter0913 wrote:
I thought I understood the usage of "with" until I saw this official sentence.
Visitors to the park have often looked up into the leafy canopy and saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging like socks on a clothesline.
The official explanation says "with" is modifying "monkeys" correctly and it is not modifying "branches".
I don't understand why is it so? According to our understanding, "with" should modify the preceding
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