It's linguistically tying statistics to a statement of fact, to justify the statement's validity. Meaning. 1. There are very clear population statistics in American colleges, with almost 25% of the student population being female. "With" and then the statistic, gives evidence to your statement. You're saying, my statement is X - (and I can feel confident in stating this) "WITH" this information.

"With" is a preposition. Prepositions connect nouns, pronouns and phrases with other words. It gives information about location, direction, space or time. The main job of prepositions is to create relationships between words. Prepositional phrases can also act like adverbs or adjectives. Adverbs describe verbs and adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. Without prepositions the English language would sound short and choppy, and they help by giving added information.

It's a conjunction. It's the only correct word. What other word are you thinking about? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/with 27. Used as a function word to indicate close association: With the advent of the rockets, the Space Age began.