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In or Into? #1 (permalink) Sun Apr 27, 2008 13:27 pm   In or Into?
 

Hello,
Please look at the sentence below:
''...He was born INTO a moderately prosperous family where his unmatched musical genius made itself known extremely early ...''
I think it should be :he was born IN...''
Please explain it for me.
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In or Into? #2 (permalink) Sun Apr 27, 2008 13:55 pm   In or Into?
 

Hi Duc

Especially in combination with the word (or idea of) 'family', the usual preposition is 'into'. You can find a lot of examples of 'born into' at the BNC website.

You would generally use 'born in' to talk about when or where you were born.
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In or Into? #3 (permalink) Mon Apr 28, 2008 13:53 pm   In or Into?
 

be born into/to/of something - be born in a particular situation, type of family etc
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In or Into? #4 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:38 am   In or Into?
 

Can you explain more clearly about each collocation ?
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In or Into? #5 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:43 am   In or Into?
 

into - expresses movement
in - expresses final position

"Born into" is the one you need, here.
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In or Into? #6 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:51 am   In or Into?
 

Why? He was born into a prosperous family. He just had one family. No movement?
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In or Into? #7 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:59 am   In or Into?
 

Think about expressions like:

brought into the family
entered into

And birth does involve movement, doesn't it? :wink:
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In or Into? #8 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:02 pm   In or Into?
 

But the passage here is about Mozart.
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In or Into? #9 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:12 pm   In or Into?
 

And? Even Wolfgang Amadeus was a new entry into the Mozart family, wasn't he?
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In or Into? #10 (permalink) Tue Apr 29, 2008 14:42 pm   In or Into?
 

One-third of all children are born into single-parent families.
A doctor's son, John Chisholm Winchester was born into a naval family on Jan 3, 1912.
Biscop Baducing was born into a noble family, then was ordained into the priesthood at the age of twenty-five.
Donald Dewar was born into a middle-class Glasgow household.
Dorena Knepper was born to be organized.
In both cases he is born of the cosmic Egg, but more important is the description given him.
The son of a farm labourer from Marton, James Cook was fortunate to be born into an age of great explorations.
This is Born to Burn Catering calling.

Just take it as a set phrase.
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