Granma issues - please help

[dirtylover]

What is the difference between into and in to?

I thought I knew, but now I don't.



Also: practical and practicable

>>>any others?
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[janiexx]

What is the difference between into and in to?

I thought I knew, but now I don't.



Also: practical and practicable

>>>any others?
. <> .Sorry if this has been covered recently

OK, I'll deal with practical and practicable first:

Practical means useful, stable, sensible, realistic, efficient.

Practicable means "feasible", "capable of being done and put into practice".

This is a sentence I found in my book on grammar:

"Although it was practicable to scale the wall with a rope, they agreed that a more practical plan would be to find a ladder."

I'll try to answer the into and in to a little later...

janiexx

 

[Lauren Hynde]

What is the difference between into and in to?

I thought I knew, but now I don't.

One exists (it's a preposition) and the other doesn't (except if they're two words that just happen to be put together but have no relation, as in "he came in to do something").

 

[dirtylover]

Thankyou!

on to + onto

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Try here for answers to all your grammar questions...

Guide to Grammar

 

[dirtylover]

Thanks Zeb, but the link doesn't seem to work.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Thanks Zeb, but the link doesn't seem to work.

It would appear that the board software is changing the website.

andromeda . rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ <--- copy and paste into your address field on the your browser.

Take the spaces around the '.' out first, before pressing return.

That is the site. (If it doesn't change)

It would appear that this site is not liked by this board software!?!?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

It would appear that this site is not liked by this board software!?!?

It's not that site, it's a russian (--.ru) site that is used by spammers. Rutgers.edu is just an unfortunate casualty of war...

 

[dirtylover]

WKD

Thanks very much - Just what I was looking for.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It's not that site, it's a russian (--.ru) site that is used by spammers. Rutgers.edu is just an unfortunate casualty of war...

Sharp eye ther Lauren, I didn't catch that.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

i'm sorry i thought there were problems with your grandmother.

 

[fairysong]

i'm sorry i thought there were problems with your grandmother.

I thought so too. Good that there isn't.

 

[gauchecritic]

I thought so too. Good that there isn't.

His granma doesn't know the difference between practical and practicable, isn't that problem enough?

 

[kendo1]

Good site.

 

[dirtylover]

My grans are no longer of this world having long since departed.

Also - they're called Nains where I come fror.

So there you go.

On the plus side, my grammar is getting better - she's up and about, getting into practically any kind of situation.

 

[dirtylover]

I've come across another one:

leaned and leant - - -= what's the difference?


Sorry, not at my most intelligent.

 

[gauchecritic]

I've come across another one:

leaned and leant - - -= what's the difference?


Sorry, not at my most intelligent.

No difference and can be pronounced the same way too: lent.

 

[cantdog]

No difference, save that "leant" is rather more likely to be the Brit spelling.

Also, for God's sake, the phrase is "reined in," not "reigned in." Reins are the traces, the leather things with which one controls a horse. Or a reindeer (NOT, you note, a reigndeer). Whereas! A reign is the period of rule of a monarch. One may rein in a horse, and therefore, by analogy, rein in any number of other processes. Reigning is not done "in."

 

[blackhaus7]

No difference, save that "leant" is rather more likely to be the Brit spelling.

Also, for God's sake, the phrase is "reined in," not "reigned in." Reins are the traces, the leather things with which one controls a horse. Or a reindeer (NOT, you note, a reigndeer). Whereas! A reign is the period of rule of a monarch. One may rein in a horse, and therefore, by analogy, rein in any number of other processes. Reigning is not done "in."

At least, it wasn't "rained in".

 

[dirtylover]

Also, for God's sake, the phrase is "reined in," not "reigned in."

Alright, keep your heir on.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I was rained in once. Then they changed my position so I was rained out from then on.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Rumour has it that Prince Philip enjoys the Queen's rain every now and then.

 

[kendo1]

Tut, tut.
To the Tower with you.

 

[SweetPrettyAss]

No difference, save that "leant" is rather more likely to be the Brit spelling.

Also, for God's sake, the phrase is "reined in," not "reigned in." Reins are the traces, the leather things with which one controls a horse. Or a reindeer (NOT, you note, a reigndeer). Whereas! A reign is the period of rule of a monarch. One may rein in a horse, and therefore, by analogy, rein in any number of other processes. Reigning is not done "in."

Reigned in is perfectly proper sometimes. Queen Victoria reigned in England for many years.