Many people aren’t sure if “hold onto” is the correct way to write the phrase or if it should be hold “on to.” You may already be able to answer this question, but we’ll break it down and review just to be sure. If you guessed that “hold on to” is correct, you are right. The reason is that the word “hold” is an action verb. More @Wikipedia
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