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Unread Oct 12th, 2008, 05:53 am
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Default Re: One more grammar question

Yeah, I believe it's when the motion is of importance, not the place. Compare:

He went in the classroom.
He went into the classroom.

The first sentence seems to place importance on the final location, where the second seems more about the action.
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