Which of these sentences is correct?
I'm a musician with an unhealthy addiction.
OR
I'm a musician who has an unhealthy addiction.
Or are they both correct? Any help would be really appreciated!
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Sign up to join this communityWhich of these sentences is correct?
I'm a musician with an unhealthy addiction.
OR
I'm a musician who has an unhealthy addiction.
Or are they both correct? Any help would be really appreciated!
They're both fine. You could switch it up and use both for the sake of repetition and variation. One just uses a relative clause to describe the speaker where the other uses a prepositional phrase.
MUSICIAN: I am a musician who has an unhealthy addiction--I write so much music that I don't get any sleep.
2ND MUSICIAN: I am also a musician with an unhealthy addiction--I write so much music that I forget to eat.
Since the relative pronoun is redundant and is not really doing much of anything outside of the structure of the sentence, the preposition strikes me as a better place to start for style points. While it would be more concise and maybe a little more natural to use the with, in the examples above, I start with the who so that the second speaker isn't upstaging the first.
This might be a good time to review other types of relative clauses:
Non-restrictive clause: The musician, who has an unhealthy addition, is adamant about following his 12 step program.
Restrictive clause: The musician who has an unhealthy addition will crash and burn.