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🔤 Grammar Tip: Are You Going “In” or “Into” the Coffee Shop?

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In / Into 

The key difference between ‘in’ and ‘into’ is that ‘in’ indicates a state of being, whereas ‘into’ indicates motion. For example, ‘into’ is often used to describe the movement of something from outdoors to indoors, such as in the sentence, “I walked into the house.” By contrast, ‘in’ is used when a thing or person is stationary. For example, “I found the book in the drawer.”

Examples

Jack drove his car into the garage.
My friend lives in that house.
The teacher came quickly into the room and began the lesson.
The dishes are in that cupboard.

Grammar Tip: There & Their Chase Their Subject

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 In sentences beginning with “there is” or “there are,” the subject follows the verb. Since “there” is not the subject, the verb agrees with what follows.
There are many questions.
There is a question.

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Grammar Tip: Is It Your or You’re Seat?

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Your, You’re

  • Your = possessive pronoun: Your shoes are untied.
  • You’re = contraction for you are:

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Grammar Tip: Is It It’s or Its Or Is It Confusing?

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Its, It’s

  • its = possessive adjective (possessive form of the
    pronoun it): The crab had an unusual growth on its shell.
  • it’s = contraction for it is or it has (in a verb phrase): It’s still raining; it’s been raining for three days.
  • (Pronouns have apostrophes only when two words are being shortened into one.)

Grammar Tip: Do You Have a Clear Conscious or Conscience? Find Out

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Conscious, Conscience

  • conscious= adjective meaning awake, perceiving: Despite a head injury, the patient remained conscious.
  • conscience = noun meaning the sense of obligation to be good: Chris wouldn’t cheat because his conscience wouldn’t let him.

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Grammar Tip: Affect & Effect

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Affect, Effect

  • affect = verb meaning to influence: Will lack of sleep affect your game?
  • effect = noun meaning result or consequence: Will lack of sleep have an effect on your game?
  • effect = verb meaning to bring about, to accomplish: Our efforts have effected a major change in university policy.

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Grammar Tip: Accept or Except?

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Accept, Except

  • accept = verb meaning to receive or to agree:He accepted their praise graciously.
  • except = preposition meaning all but, other than:Everyone went to the game except Alyson.

SOURCE: PURDUE WRITING LAB

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