Timeline for "Inside of" in AmE
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| Feb 4, 2017 at 22:54 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/828013950944083969 | ||
| Feb 4, 2017 at 20:25 | comment | added | David K | One example where I would expect "of" is when "inside" is used with a period of time ("inside of two weeks," meaning "within two weeks"). This usage was never very common (in comparison to "within") and were more common 100 years ago than now, but "inside of" seems to have retained the lead over "inside": books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | WRX | Then Andrew got it right! | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:49 | vote | accept | Yulia | ||
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | Yulia | Thank you, Willow Rex. My question is about whether the combination "inside of something" is acceptable. In other words, can we say: "The foreigner is probably hiding inside of the city", not only "inside the city"? From my experience, BrE admits of the latter option, without "of". | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:42 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:39 | comment | added | WRX | Sorry Yulia, I still don't know enough to answer any better than I did. If you have a link, or more of the article, we can explain what was meant. Yes, your brain is inside of your head and most of my examples covered what your phrase could mean. If you literally mean "what is inside a head" -- this is the wrong site. | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:37 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | Someone will probably check an NGram of "inside" and "inside of," but to my AmerE ear, we usually drop the "of," especially in speech; e.g., "Where is the part I'm looking for?" "It's inside the box." The "of" tends to be used for emphasis; e.g., "I can't find it!" "It's inside of the box." | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:30 | comment | added | Yulia | @ Mark Hubbard: :) Yes, I saw this example. And?.. | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:29 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Marx | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:21 | comment | added | Yulia | @Willow Rex: The brain is inside OF the head. | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:17 | comment | added | WRX | I would need more. Inside my head could mean that I think too much, I make problems larger because I'm inside my head too much. It could mean imaginary. It's all in my head -- fabricated., It could mean inside THE head -- a bathroom on a boat. | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:15 | history | edited | Yulia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2017 at 17:05 | history | asked | Yulia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |