Some esoteric grammar talk coming up. Run and hide.<\/p>\n
I haven’t seen this addressed anywhere else, so here I am addressing a need. (I haven’t looked very hard, but whatever.)<\/p>\n
Do you “sign into” the web site, or “sign in to” the web site? It’s used both ways all over the place, but in my opinion, only one way makes sense.<\/p>\n
“Sign in” (like “look up,” in the sense of “consult a dictionary”) is a phrasal verb. In other words, both Sign and In are necessary to complete the verb.<\/p>\n
In other words again, “I sign in to see my account” is different from “I sign in ink.” The action in the former is “Sign In” and in the latter, “Sign.”<\/p>\n
Getting into the web site is a matter of signing in. Not signing. So you keep both “sign” and “in” just as they are, without changing the “in” to an “into.” Am I making sense?<\/p>\n
How about this conversation:<\/p>\n
A: Where are you going?<\/p>\n
B: I’m going into this bar.<\/p>\n
Now this:<\/p>\n
A. Where are you signing?<\/p>\n
B. I’m signing into this web site.<\/p>\n
And finally:<\/p>\n
A. Where are you signing in?<\/p>\n
B. I’m signing in to this web site.<\/p>\n
The first and the last make sense. The middle one doesn’t.<\/p>\n
By the way, this is why both words should be capitalized in a headline, even if prepositions are otherwise not:<\/p>\n
“Weeklyrob Signs In to His Account” vs. “Weeklyrob Learns Semaphore and Signs into the Sky”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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