English prepositions: "In", "Into", "On", and "Onto"

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What's the difference between On, In, Onto and Into?
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Do we have to add "to"?
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Does it matter?
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Does it make a difference?
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What's the meaning of life?
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Non-automatic English subtitles by Julie Descaves
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In this video, we'll answer all of those questions,
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but, first, we need to focus on the prepositions "On" and "In".
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Where is Aly?
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He is inside or in the pool.
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Where's Tom?
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Outside or out of the pool.
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Where's the fish?
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On a plate.
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Where is my phone?
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In my pocket.
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So : In, Out, Off, On, they show the location of objects :
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My phone is in my pocket,
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Aly is in the pool.
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But, if we talk about movement,
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from Off to On,
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or from Out to In,
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then, we must add "to".
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For example :
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I put a fish onto the plate.
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I put the tweezers into my pocket.
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Do we have to add "to"?
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Couldn't I just say "I put the fish on a plate",
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"I put the phone in my pocket"?
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Yes, you could say that!
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But that's why we use "to",
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to show movement.
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But, be careful, we say "onto something" but we don't say "offto something",
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it's just off.
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The same with "into", that's ok,
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"outto", no!
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Here's your test!
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So, Aly and Tom are peeing.
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But, where are they peeing?
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One of them is peeing in the pool, one of them is peeing into the pool.
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Did you guess correct?
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Aly is peeing in the pool because that's his location, he is in the pool.
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Tom is peeing into the pool beacuse his pee is going from out to in the pool.
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I know this was a gross example but someone asks you what the difference is...
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you'll remember.
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See you next time!
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