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[morethanabean]

my first customer of the day:
"do you know if there's a UPS Store near here?"

what i did not say:
"well, the closest one i know of is the one you're standing in, genius."

in other news. i love mark twain.
i'm going back in time (much in the manner of a certain connecticut yankee) and partying wit' my main man mark.
ROAD TRIP!

Comments

[sans_galois]

I would have said that. Nothing would have stopped me.

[dinosaurdorer]

i would have too, only i would have said "well, the closes one i know of is the one in which you are standing, genius." despite sarcastic reference to the customer's intelligence, in is still a preposition. i love you.

[sans_galois]

Ah, yes, but "to stand in" is what's called a phrasal verb. The "in" isn't so much a preposition as it is just a part of the verb.

It acts the same as "to call up," "to ask out," "to freak out," "to carry on."

[dinosaurdorer]

true, i do not refute that.... but please note that all examples you gave and the example at hand all have a prepositional context as well.

to call up (what, who?)
to ask out (who, where?)
to carry on (what, with what, how?)

booya.
your mom.