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- Accompanied with or by? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Accompanied "by" something is the idiomatic usage: with something extra to go along with something else; with something to complement something else Dessert was accompanied by a fine white wine (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs ) As shown in Ngram "accompanied with" used to be a common expression, but it is rarely
- I was accompanied by my friends for or to a picnic
Because accompanied to is so common a collocation with destinations and venues and activities, usages like I was accompanied by my friends for a concert get interfered with and thus sound marginal
- meaning - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Accompany means to go in company with someone or something (robots), to go together with Escort has a sense of providing protection or guidance Here's what The-difference-between says: Accompany is a synonym of escort Escort is a synonym of accompany As verbs the difference between escort and accompany is that escort is to attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard
- vocabulary - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
When you say "X is accompanied by Y", you put stress on "X", and make it look original, more important Thus, without any context, it indeed looks as if Y joined X's company and went along or followed
- word usage - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
The meaning says that "A accompanies B" (and "B is accompanied by A") is equivalent to "A occurs concurrently with B", i e , there is no primary-secondary relation between A and B
- The singer was accompanied by her sister on the piano?
"The singer was accompanied on the piano by her sister" leaves confusion in the readers mind as to whether the singer was also playing the piano, and the two of them played a duet while the singer did the singing This, of course, may have been the case But do you see the subtle difference in meaning between the two?
- punctuation - Should there be a comma before accompanied by . . .
Should there be a comma before "accompanied by"? The Russian original uses "with" instead of "accompanied by", but I thought that might mean like "pharynx with difficulties of breathing", so I used "accompanied"
- Why is 10th May called an autumn day in South Africa?
Mandela writes: "On that lovely autumn day (10th May) I was accompanied by my daughter Zenani " Now, students are asked: ' How is 10th May an autumn day in South Africa?
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