Yuko went out of the house and into the garden

Question

I read the following in English vocabulary in use book.

Yuko went out of the house and into the garden.

Is it common to use and with into?

Answer 1

Imagine that you had two sentences:

Yuko went out of the house.
Yuko went into the garden.

These are both perfectly normal, correct sentences. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, and can be used as a conjunction to join two parts of a sentence, one part happening after the other part. If we do that with the two sentences above, we get:

Yuko went out of the house and Yuko went into the garden.

There are some duplicated words in that sentence. We can prune them out using a process called ellipsis, giving this sentence:

Yuko went out of the house and into the garden.

When you analyse the sentence in this way, you should be able to see that there is nothing special about the construction and into. It's just a consequence of taking two ordinary sentences, joining them with and, then removing the duplicated words.

Note that a preposition clause simply provides additional information to a sentence: you can add as many of these as you like to a sentence. out of the house and into the garden are both preposition phrases, so you could remove the and:

Yuko went out of the house into the garden.

This would imply that the two things were part of the same went action, for example going through a doorway directly into the garden. The use of and would suggest two consecutive actions, for example going through a doorway and down a path leading to the garden.

Answer 2

Yes, this is both common and correct.

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