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Why in this sentence do we put “in” tell me why? Why don’t “with”?
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If you check a dictionary, you wil find this as one of the standard meanings of in. com/dictionary/in — used as a function word to indicate means, medium, or instrumentality eg written in pencil eg bound in leather eg The form should be completed in ink. eg When he was young he sketched in pencil, but now he paints in watercolours.
- If you check a dictionary, you wil find this as one of the standard meanings of in.
- com/dictionary/in — used as a function word to indicate means, medium, or instrumentality eg written in pencil eg bound in leather eg The form should be completed in ink.
- eg When he was young he sketched in pencil, but now he paints in watercolours.
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If you check a dictionary, you wil find this as one of the standard meanings of in.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in
—used as a function word to indicate means, medium, or instrumentality
eg written in pencil eg bound in leather
eg The form shou
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