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Therealmike Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Prepositions of Place
Why we use <to> instead of <in> when we talking about travel and where we`ve been ? But when we talking about live we use <in>...
for example:
He has been to Stockholm.
He lived in Stockholm.
for example:
He has been to Stockholm.
He lived in Stockholm.
Top answer
The use of "to" indicates that the subject moved himself from one place to another (from his home to Stockholm) while "in" indicates that the subject remains in one particular place (Stockholm).
- The use of "to" indicates that the subject moved himself from one place to another (from his home to Stockholm) while "in" indicates that the subject remains in one particular place (Stockholm).
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The use of "to" indicates that the subject moved himself from one place to another (from his home to Stockholm) while "in" indicates that the subject remains in one particular place (Stockholm).
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HAVE + been +to is best regarded as idiomatic. It suggests that the subject of the verb has at some time in the past, gone to a place, been in that place, and then left it. S/he did not necessarily live there.
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