Move in means to start living in a new home: The new neighbours moved in yesterday. Move in with someone means to go and live with someone or to start living together: She moved in with her boyfriend. If you name the home itself, use into: move into a new flat.
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move in; move in with + person; move in together; move into + place; move out (of + place)
- The new neighbours moved in on Saturday and invited us for coffee.
- After graduation, I moved in with two friends from university.
- We're moving into a bigger flat closer to my office next month.
What changed
First versionWe moved in a new flat last week.
RevisionWe moved into a new flat last week.
Move in has no object after it: we moved in. In alone feels like enough, but it can't introduce the place. When you name the place, in changes to into: moved into a new flat.
Move in and move out are a pair: to start living somewhere and to leave. Move out of + place: I moved out of my parents' flat at twenty. And to say you're changing homes without saying where, British people say move house: We're moving house in May.
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Anna and her boyfriend have been together for two years, and next month they're ___ together.
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moving in — After together, no place is named, so you need moving in, meaning they'll start living together. Moving into requires you to say where exactly: moving into a new flat.
Write about a move, yours or someone you know. Say when it happened and who the person started living with.
Last September my sister moved in with her best friend in a flat near the university.
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