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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Weave in/into, drive in/into

This novel is set in a Chinese village before World War One.
The protagonist lives with his wife, baby, and father, his wife was a maid to so rich a family.
It is the winter.

He stayed in his house and while the woman mended and sewed he took his rakes of split bamboo and examined them, and where the string was broken he wove in new string made of hemp he grew himself, and where a prong was broken out he drove in cleverly a new bit of bamboo.
<The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck>
I'd like to know if "where" means "to" here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon I'd like to know if "where" means "to" here. No. It means "in the place in which".

— CalifJim

  • park sang joon I'd like to know if "where" means "to" here.
  • No.
  • It means "in the place in which".
  • CJ
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park sang joonI'd like to know if "where" means "to" here.
No. It means "in the place in which".

CJ
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Thank you, CalifJim, for another So Very helpful answer from you. Emotion: smile
Then I was wondering if it is idiomatic, such a clause as "he
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park sang joonThen I was wondering if it is idiomatic, such a clause as "he wove in new string in the place the string was broken."
Yes. In conversation it's not that unusual for a phrasal verb (weave in) to end in a preposition that is used again in the same sentence (in), but in good writing it is usually avoided. So you might say that the wr
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