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Liveinjapan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

According to

Situation: When you click "+", it enlarges the map. If you click "+" twice, it enlarge the map twice.

Can I say this?

It enlarges the map according to the number of clicks.

Thanks.
  

Top answer

How about changing it to "Zoom"? Say, Zoom level of the map can be increased by clicking "+" Or - Click "+" once to zoom the map and twice to zoom it further. Or...

— Askshameer

  • How about changing it to "Zoom"?
  • Say, Zoom level of the map can be increased by clicking "+" Or - Click "+" once to zoom the map and twice to zoom it further.
  • Or...
  • there would be 100 other possibilities to say that...
  • /Sameer
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How about changing it to "Zoom"?

Say, Zoom level of the map can be increased by clicking "+"

Or - Click "+" once to zoom the map and twice to zoom it further.

Or... there would be 100 other possibilities to say that...
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I read "enlarging the map" to mean either: 1) increasing the map magnification (zooming in more), or 2) expanding to a wider area (e.g., a map of England expands to a map of Europe and which expands further to Europe and Central Asia).

You most probably meant no. 1, right? If that is the case, I suggest:

"Click + to increase map magnification" is suffice. This instruction is alw
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Thanks for your great sentences and suggestions, Sameer and Chris.
I learned a lot!!!
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