prepositions
What is the meaning of "As with" in the sentence, "As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it" ?
Does it mean "If we compare with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it" ?
What does "as" and "with" in this sentence mean?
I have encounted with "as with" in many sentences and I hardly know what it exactly means.
For example:
She bought up as with the connivance of school.
As with all good catfights, there’s a boy involved.
I think they all mean roughly the same thing – if you told me one of these statements, I'd expect your address to be something like 1427 Downing Street (or someplace near that) – but there might be some contextual differences in when you would say them.
First off, I don't think any of the four would be my choice of preposition if someone asked me where I live. Instead, I'd usually say:
I live on Downing Street.
or, if I was giving the exact address:
I live at 1427 Downing Street.
However, some of the prepositions you mention are often given when people provide directions. Consider the map below:
Let's also assume Pace St. is a fairly well-known location – if you and I were in a conversation, we'd both probably know where that road is, and how to get to it. With that in mind, here are some questions you might ask, and how I might answer them:
Where do your kids go to school?
At the Goddard School.
Oh, where's that?
The Goddard School is off of Pace Street.
Actually, the school is on Olympia Ave, but I'm guessing that, if you knew where Olympia Avenue was, you wouldn't have asked me where the school is. So I use off to tell you a major road that the school is near.
Where is your Graphics shop?
It's on Santa Fe Drive.
Hmm, I don't know where that is.
Santa Fe Drive runs along the river.
Directionally, along usually means roughly parallel with. (I could have also said, "The river runs along Santa Fe Drive.")
Now, let's pretend I live where the orange square is, and my friend Monica lives where the blue square is.
Where do you live?
I live on Calais Drive.
Isn't that close to where Monica lives?
Yes, Monica lives just up the road from me.
When giving directions, up and down might be roughly synonymous, and they don't necessarily connote hills. I could have just as easily said down instead of up. In fact, one could even argue that up means "further down the road," and down means "further up the road."
These adjectives are flexible, and can be used in ways other than those I've described here. But I've tried to at least point out some of the subtle differences. I would not say that the school is along Pace Street, but I might say it's down Olympia Avenue.
Where're you going for your holiday(s)?
Where're you going on vacation/holiday?
You normally use the preposition "on", but the use of the "for" isn't ungrammatical.
As for the sentence "Tell me a good place to go on holiday", there's nothing with it grammatically.
Best Answer
"as with" = "just like with" or "as is true with"
The sentence you gave is talking about following your heart. It is saying that your intuition, rather than your rational mind, will let you know when you've found what you're looking for. "matters of the heart" refers to human emotions and how they affect our decisions.
So you could rephrase the original sentence as:
Just like any other time when you follow your heart, you'll know when you find it.
Or, more briefly:
Just like with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
As is true with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Just as it's true with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.