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Yckelvin Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

In the floor

I read a story and it said, "Toto jumped out of Dorothy's arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him. Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor ....."

What is the meaning of "in the floor"?

Best regards,

Kelvin
  

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The door was in the floor the way a door is normally in a wall.

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The door was in the floor the way a door is normally in a wall.
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Why use the preposition "in" but not "on"?
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yckelvinWhy use the preposition "in" but not "on"?
No reason. Idiom. I guess you could think of it like the way a hole is in something, and a door is a kind of hole.
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yckelvinWhy use the preposition "in" but not "on"?
On the floor would indicate that the door was simply resting on the floor, like a rug lying on the floor. In indicates that it is part of the floor itself.
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