Resentment build up over time. = increases over time Resentment is building up between rich and poor, and for that reason many of these women are......... The cause can be expressed by: "With resentment building up ....". Learn the structure.

"With" is a marginal clause subordinator. What is special about it in comparison with the basic subordinators "that", "if", etc. is that IT IS NEVER FOLLOWED BY A CLAUSE CONTAINING A TENSED VERB. On the contrary, "with" introduces "small ", "defective" clauses that lack the characteristic clause inflection (= tense), but contain the essential clause constituents, i.e., a subject and a predicate. In your example, the subject is "resentment" and the predicate is "building......poor". The predicate is still a verb in this case ("building"), although one with a non-finite inflection (= progressive "-ing"). "Pseudo-passive" infinitives are also possible, as in "With so many things TO DO, I cannot go away now", and, of course, real passive participles, as in "With the people ENRAGED BY HIS LIES, Papandreu had to step down." However, the predicate need NOT be a verb in this kind of clause. It may be a prepositional phrase, as in "With the children IN BED, we could finally sit peacefully and talk things over", an adjectival phrase, as in "With an unemployment rate HIGHER THAN EVER, the young have no choice but to emigrate", or even a noun phrase, as in "With John as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), job cuts are to be expected". In sum: "With" starts subject+predicate structures, except that they CANNOT contain tense: "*With the children sleep in bed, we can talk". And, by the way, "without" can also introduce this kind of tense-less clauses.

The sentence expresses a weak causality. It says that resentment is building (someone is angry...) over the gap (...about the fact that there is an income gap). It also says that the women are seeking protection, implying but not stating a causality. Without more context, you can only say that someone is annoyed by the income gap (it could be the rich, too - or everyone) and that somehow because there is this anger "in the air", the women seek protection.

Hi Professor B Thank you. I am just not familiar with this kind of sentence instruction.. With + clauses Anyhow , after reading below replies from Relet,Luis and Eliot , I think I got it. Thank you.

Yes, you're right, I'm sorry to say that's becoming more true in America with almost fifty million living in poverty. Which word or piece of grammar did you misunderstand? My Skype: brian.madden4