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Do you know when to use in, inside, into, and within?
These prepositions can be tricky, but today I'll help you understand the difference clearly in five minutes.
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We'll start with in versus inside.
In and inside are the same in many cases, so you can say, we are in the house, or we are inside the house.
The clothes are in the closet, or the clothes are inside the closet.
One small difference is that the word inside implies that the thing is physically enclosed.
It is in a container, like a box, a vehicle, or a building with walls.
This means that when talking about location, time, being included,
or other situations where you are not physically surrounded, you should use only in, not inside.
For example, I live in Australia.
My birthday is in July.
He plays guitar in a band.
Now let's look at into.
The word into implies movement or transformation.