English Language & Usage Asked by dominiquealexi on March 18, 2021
When it comes to the sentence Sign in to your account
, I understand why it is more proper to say sign in to
as opposed to sign into
. Sign in is a phrasal verb and to is the preposition.
However, I cannot find the proper explanation as to why it’s improper to say sign in into your account
.
My partner and I are both engineers, so his argument is that when you sign in, you are in fact going INTO an account. This just does not sit right with me, but I cannot put into words why.
Also, would the sentence Sign in to mywebsite
change anything? Sign into mywebsite
? Sign in into mywebsite
?
Sign in
as a synonym for the verb access
is not a separable verb. e. g. Send up, put down. He put down his boss.
== He put his boss down.
Sign in the guest
and sign the guest in
are equivalent.
Sign into the account
and Sign the account into
are not. the Guest
is the direct object, whereas the account
is not. Clearly something different is happening between Sign in the guest
and Sign in the account
, as illustrated by Sign in to the guest
and Sign into the guest
both being nonsensical.
sign in
, sign into
, and sign in to
can be transitive or intransitive. Now look at He signed the woman in to his account
. Here, woman
is the direct object.
He signed in the woman, into his account.
Or conversely, The woman was signed in into his account.
The latter meets your objective, though by a rather tortuous approach.
(Consider He invited in the women, into his home
, He invited the women in, into his home
. invite in
is separable verb phrase)
In summary, signed in, into ...
. works in active voice and indicates emphasis or or elaboration. Note the comma. In passive voice signed in into ...
is acceptable.
Answered by ShpielMeister on March 18, 2021
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