Sunday, January 7, 2018

grammaticality - Why is this sentence correct?




In 2005, fiction made up the largest proportion of items borrowed at 35% with children's books and DVDs equally second at 20% each.



I have two question about this.



  1. The preposition with is followed by a clause without a verb, so why is this sentence correct?

  2. Has an of been elided in "20% each"? Does it correspond to "20% of each"?




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