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On to vs. Onto
 We continue to receive many inquiries about when to use on to vs. onto. This grammar tip last appeared in the E-Newsletter of January 5, 2010. We recently discovered there is one more important rule for correctly using onto, which is added as Rule 2 today.
Rule 1: Use onto as one word if you can add up before on.
Example: He climbed (up) onto the roof.
Example: She held on to her child in the crowd. (She did not hold up her child.)
Rule 2: Use onto when you mean fully aware of; informed about.
Example: We canceled Julia's surprise party when we realized she was onto our plan.
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1. You better hold on to/onto your hat on that roller coaster!
2. I'm going to have to climb on to/onto the roof to fix that leak again.
3. The guards are on to/onto the prisoners' scheme to break out of jail.
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 Wordplay
Thanks to Ian B. for pointing out this poem, that even beats last week's Wordplay for number of prepositions ending a sentence!
The Naughty Preposition
by Morris Bishop
I lately lost a preposition:
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair.
And angrily I cried: "Perdition!
Up from out of in under there!"
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor;
And yet I wondered: "What should he come
Up from out of in under for?"
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1. on to
2. onto
3. onto
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