有一读者问这样一句话：
(1)One evening in October, I heard by telegram from some friends in our provincial capital, twenty-five miles off by rail, that they had a box for opera, with a place to spare for me.
如何分析with a place to spare for me?
你大概对由“with+名（代）词+分词”组成的独立结构比较熟悉，而对于上述句中的with a place to spare for me就有点陌生了。其实“with+名（代）词+不定式”的有独立结构也不罕见，再如：
(2)They are highly mechanized farms, with machinery to do all the work .
(3)Nobody has much of a chance to go wrong in Avonlea with Rachel to oversee them.
顺便说一下，含有with的独立结构多用在平易通俗的文体中，而在较为正式而文气的文体中，with则一般是不用的，实例如：
(4)Their room was on the third floor, its window overlooking the sports ground .
(5)We divided the work, he to clean the window and I to sweep the floor .
