Usage of Preposition
I will be so grateful if someone explains why INTO preposition has been used in the following sentence.
"The girls were duped by drug smugglers into carrying heroin for them."
Sentence reference: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dupe
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The pattern is "dupe someone into doing something" (your sentence uses the passive version of this), similar to "trick someone into doing something", "scare someone into doing something", and so on. These are set idiomatic patterns; the use of "into" is not completely predictable. Probably the idea is ultimately related to leading someone into a certain place, or something like that.
- The pattern is "dupe someone into doing something" (your sentence uses the passive version of this), similar to "trick someone into doing something", "scare someone into doing something", and so on.
- These are set idiomatic patterns; the use of "into" is not completely predictable.
- Probably the idea is ultimately related to leading someone into a certain place, or something like that.
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The pattern is "dupe someone into doing something" (your sentence uses the passive version of this), similar to "trick someone into doing something", "scare someone into doing something", and so on. These are set idiomatic patterns; the use of "into" is not completely predictable. Probably the idea is ultimately related to leading someone into a certain place, or something like that.
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