Today, I was asked by my friend from Columbia about the differences between the use of In and Into. So, I decided to use that as a subject for my first post here in English Workshop.
In, Into
In means inside something. It emphasizes the situation in which someone or something is inside of something.
Example: I am in the office.
The food is in the refrigerator.
There is a mouse in my house.
Into tells of motion from the outside to the inside of something. It emphasizes the action of a thing entering or being put inside something.
Example: I am walking into the office.
My mom put the food into the refrigerator.
There is a mouse creeping into my house.
Wrong: Cinderella's shoes fell in the stairs.
Right: Cinderella's shoes fell into the stairs.
Wrong: The slides went automatically in the projector.
Right: The slides went automatically into the projector.
In, Into
In means inside something. It emphasizes the situation in which someone or something is inside of something.
Example: I am in the office.
The food is in the refrigerator.
There is a mouse in my house.
Into tells of motion from the outside to the inside of something. It emphasizes the action of a thing entering or being put inside something.
Example: I am walking into the office.
My mom put the food into the refrigerator.
There is a mouse creeping into my house.
Wrong: Cinderella's shoes fell in the stairs.
Right: Cinderella's shoes fell into the stairs.
Wrong: The slides went automatically in the projector.
Right: The slides went automatically into the projector.
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