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New2grammar Posted 19 years ago
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0What's the difference between "smacked in the mouth" and "smacked on the mouth", and also "spanked on the ass" vs "spanked in the ass"?02br
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0 With verbs of contact by impact both 01i00in02i00 and 01i00on02i00 are used. It mostly depends on whether the contact can be conceptualized as surface-to-surface (01i00on02i00) or point-to-point (01i00in02i00). Both the nature of the action expressed by the verb and the forms of the objects impactin

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