Onto your Agoraphobia, how come you've developed that?

[jutfrank]

you said it couldn't be used that way, two months ago.

No, I didn't say that. Or rather, I didn't mean to say that. My first point was that it's wrong if written 'onto', and that it should be separated into two words. I was disagreeing with emsr2d2 more than anything else, who implied in her post #2 that the one-word version was fine. I don't think it is fine.

My second point was that it's a reduction of a more complete phrasal verb, i.e., '[moving] on to x', where the particle 'on' is really part of a phrasal verb 'move on'. In your agoraphobia example, I said I thought it was not very good in that particular context. In that regard, I do agree with emsr2d2 that the sentence is better with the verb 'moving' kept intact.

Or was my explanation on how to use it back then just not good enough?

No, it wasn't your fault. I understood perfectly well what you were asking.

 

[Tarheel]

@jutfrank

I suppose using "on to" in such a way is informal?

It's not necessarily used in ONLY an informal setting. Thus I wouldn't label "informal" as opposed to "formal".

**intact