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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Preposition issues

is it wrong to say "he climbed up onto a tree"
  

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Hi, The idiomatic preposition is into , not onto . Your sentence is still incorrect, because it does not start and end properly. Do you know how to do that?

— Clive

  • Hi, The idiomatic preposition is into , not onto .
  • Your sentence is still incorrect, because it does not start and end properly.
  • Do you know how to do that?
  • Clive
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Hi,

The idiomatic preposition is into, not onto.

Your sentence is still incorrect, because it does not start and end properly. Do you know how to do that?

Clive
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In the US, you sometimes hear a sentence like "He climbed up onto a tree." There is a kind of redundancy in the group "up onto," and so this might be considered slightly non-standard speech, but you often have this kind of rendundancy in English, for emphasis, in informal speech. For example:

"I've been trying all morning to catch that raccoon. I had him trapped in the garage, but then
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. I had him trapped in the garage, but then he climbed up into a tree and now I can't get him."
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