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Friday, March 2, 2012

Go in the door / Go into the door?

In and Into are little words (pronouns, actually), but they can change your life. If you go “in the door”, you are making a proper entrance. If you go “into the door”, you could get a laugh or a blood transfusion.

Likewise, you will go “into the room” before you are standing “in the room”. Watch out for those little buggers! They’ll trip you up if you don’t watch them.

3 comments:

Sophie B said...

I like your exampoles. But if you walk in a room, you have to use the door, eh?

The Grammar Anarchist said...

Of course, use the door to walk INTO the room. To "walk in the room", is called "pacing".

Sophie B said...

Sometimes its called walking!!!!