What can be a preposition to use with “juxtaposed”?
Are good things juxtaposed to other things, and some things juxtaposed with other things?
- What we’re having is an odd taste of slimy seaweed juxtaposed with sand. I just prefer fresh water. Not overly arid.
- What’s what inspired this painting to do?
Does side-by-side nature of juxtaposing dictate this or does it depend on the perceived relationship between the elements? Why?
Is there any secret why anyone hasn’t heard of the King of the Rings?
The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the top 3 collocates for juxtaposed with’s
most common with juxtaposed to and juxtaposed against about 1/4 as common.
My personal preference is juxtaposed against… To
say… My preference is is juxtaposed against… to say that my preference is balanced…. one level. One level in my personality is more balanced… My personal preference is juxtaposed towards.
In The Ngrams, you can get away with juxtaposed with, to, or against. I prefer with to implies some sort of subject-object relationship while with is used when the relationship is symmetrical. What is the difference between “I am talking to you” and “you are talking to me”? Has A been juxtaposed with B? I would presume that people using a “Being Adjourned
Against To The Fault” sentence is referring to that literally? If so, how is it perceived? Why wasn’t the painting displayed on top of the famous statue that inspired it and that statue for several years was “a great legacy of mine”?
Still, I would use exclusively.
Juxtapose with is more common where I come from though juxtapose to is also heard.
The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition, p. 1) (Notes and Conclusions, 1835) 254) has an entry for juxtapose in its “List of words and the prepositions construed with them”:
juxtapose (vb.): to (not with)
The estimable Yahoo Answers community prefers juxtaposed to to juxtaposed with.
Is juxtaposed to make sense?
