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spinney
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Hand in to or hand into?
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Hi People!
Sorry to be a bother and all that but I �m busy writing a phrasal verb exercise and I have a doubt. I have written the following:
She found a wallet containing �100
which she promptly handed in to the nearest police station.
Should it be: She found a wallet containing �100 which she promptly handed into the nearest police station? or is it OK.
What �s the rule on that anyway? I can �t remember but I know it �s something pretty much black and white and my other half has nicked my grammar book so I �m kind of in the dark here. 
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18 Nov 2012
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adital
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Hi Spinney, The correct way is: handed in to the nearest police station. To hand into is not a phrasal verb and frankly, I can �t think of an example where "hand into" can work.
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18 Nov 2012
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Zora
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The correct phrasal is �hand in � which basically means give as you already know.
�Into � implies a literal movement of something: put it into the box. You are putting the object in the box.
If you were to say -She found a wallet containing �100 which she promptly handed into the nearest police station - we �d all understand it, although grammatically it means she put the wallet in the police station., not that she gave it to the police.
I think that the preposition �to � is what is causing you the problem. Make a sentence without the �to � and you will see the phrasal is �hand in � and not �hand into �. I handed in the wallet to the police. OR I handed in the worksheet.
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18 Nov 2012
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yanogator
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@Mariethe, I thinjk you mean "racking his brain". Raking it would be very painful.  Yes, it is definitely "hand it in to", although you will see the other far too often these days, since people logically guess that "into" is used with motion, and there is motion involved here. A few years ago I saw an instruction in a textbook to "turn the completed paper into your instructor", but Harry Potter wasn �t available for this amazing transformation, so the students had to turn it in to me instead. Bruce |
18 Nov 2012
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cbestanol
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the phrase is "hand in" so it would be proper to use "hand in to" not "hand into"
by the way, i, myself could not think of an example where the phrase "hand into" could be properly used...
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18 Nov 2012
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cunliffe
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Hiya Spinney - I think it �s high time your other half handed your grammar back back into you. Edit: isn�t English funny????
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18 Nov 2012
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SaraMariam
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An example for hand into would be more like: turn your hand into a bluff or something of that kind :p |
18 Nov 2012
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spinney
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Wow!!! Thanks for the help people. I �ll post the exercise up there later. Very nice to have so many people lending me a hand. You �re all stars! |
18 Nov 2012
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you would not hand it into your English teacher, would you???
That would indeed have been very painful for such a nice person as spinney!!
in (to somebody)