Notice the meaning of the little words in and into in these sentences:

A strange dog came into the schoolroom.

He walked about in it, making friends with the children.

1. Rules

Use in when you are thinking of something's being within, or inside, a place.

Use into when you are thinking of movement from without to within.

2. Exercise

Fill each blank with in or into:

1. They are playing------the garden.

2. The hunter went------the grain field.

3. I put the puppy-----the basket-----the shed.

4. The dog jumped------the water and swam about it.

5. Will you walk------my parlor?

6. Carry the milk------the house.

7. Play------the yard.

8. Throw the wood------the shed.

9. "I have you fast------my fortress.

And will not let you depart,

But put you down------my dungeon

------the round-tower of my heart."