Timeline for "In motion again" vs "into motion again"
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| May 16, 2018 at 2:03 | vote | accept | alex | ||
| May 15, 2018 at 20:28 | comment | added | user3169 | Considering how to answer this, a better example might be helpful. I can't get a feeling for the motion, since air particles are always moving the same in a literal sense. In the more likely interpretation, "At last, Mark spoke to Mary, setting the feelings between them in/into motion again.", I would use into since a change of state clearly has occurred. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 17:37 | answer | added | MattCom | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 15, 2018 at 16:27 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | There's no particular "Why?" involved. Google NGrams has put into motion accounting for over a third of all instances over the past 50 years, but if you make the date range a century earlier, it was almost too rare to appear on the chart at all.Use whichever you like, but don't assume either is more "right" or "wrong" than the other. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 15:38 | history | asked | alex | CC BY-SA 4.0 |