Dear teacher,
Mark Walter, head of technology for the Buffalo school, said the system was working well now. But Mr. Walter cautions that the more ambitious technological efforts in Spring, particularly given the reliance on cellphones to call in the data, are "going to run in to some problems."
Q : I know "run into trouble/difficulty/problems" means "to start to have trouble/difficulty/problems" as an idiom. Are both run into and run in to are acceptable? or Is it a typo?
All the best,
run in to vs run into
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'Run in to' is not a phrasal unit but simply a string of words which could correctly occur only in a sentence such as
The child quickly ran in (the house) to his mother.
'Run into', on the other hand, is a prepositional phrasal verb used both to mean literally 'enter while running' (as in The fireman ran into the burning building) and with other metaphorical applications, such as 'run into trouble'.
In short, therefore, you are right: it must be a misprint!
The child quickly ran in (the house) to his mother.
'Run into', on the other hand, is a prepositional phrasal verb used both to mean literally 'enter while running' (as in The fireman ran into the burning building) and with other metaphorical applications, such as 'run into trouble'.
In short, therefore, you are right: it must be a misprint!