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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
into or in to
Correct (as seen on cereal box)?:
clip box tops ... and send the INTO school with your child.
clip box tops ... and send the INTO school with your child.
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) I would have put "to" there. "In to" and "into" provide people like us endless fun. It is sometimes impossible to tell which we should write.
- ) I would have put "to" there.
- "In to" and "into" provide people like us endless fun.
- It is sometimes impossible to tell which we should write.
- They sound the same, and the meanings overlap quite a bit.
- Neither belongs in your phrase, though, so we are spared this time.
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(You meant "them".) I would have put "to" there.
"In to" and "into" provide people like us endless fun. It is sometimes impossible to tell which we should write. They sound the same, and the meanings overlap quite a bit. Neither belongs in your phrase, though, so we are spared this time.
"In to" and "into" provide people like us endless fun. It is sometimes impossible to tell which we should write. They sound the same, and the meanings overlap quite a bit. Neither belongs in your phrase, though, so we are spared this time.
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My initial reaction was also that a simple "to" would be best. But looking at it from the writer's viewpoint, I wondered which of the two, "in to" and "into", could be used. My intuition says "in to" might be OK, since you might say to your child, "take those in with you". OTOH, I could not find a definitive rule.
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