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What’s the grammatical role of “in” in “You’ve got a friend in me”? Would you show me other sentences with the same use of “in”?
What’s the grammatical role of “in” in “You’ve got a friend in me”? Would you show me other sentences with the same use of “in”?
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It's a preposition. The friend you have is in the form of me. It is instantiated in me. It's not a common way to use that preposition.
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