: Re: "And" vs "with" in description lists When should I use the former or the later? Examples: It was a bird. It had a black head and wings and a golden underbelly. It was a bird.

"Wings and a golden underbelly" is better because otherwise it seems like the wings have a golden underbelly.

The second example depends on if you want the rooms or the building to have the shelves. With if you want to the rooms to have the shelves, and otherwise.

In a list of attributes, such as yours, use and to demark the last attribute of the main object and with to create a sublist of attributes of one of the main list attributes.

The tree had green leaves with spikes and pronounced veins.

Leaves are an attribute of the tree, spikes and veins are attributes of the leaves.

The figure had six legs, four arms and three heads with horns

The legs, arms and head are attributes of the figure, the horns are an attribute of the heads.

It is possible to use with with the main object:

The tree was tall, with green leaves.

So the tree has leaves, not the attribute tall. C.f. "The tree was tall and had green leaves."

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