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Ann225 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
Expand or expand out
Hi,
Would you ever use ‘expand out’ instead of ‘expand’?
For instance:
“We need to expand (out) 5(3x + 4x^2).”
“I limited my search to the local area. If I wanted to expand it (out), it’d take me longer to finish.”
Thank you.
Top answer
” "Out" is wrong because the word in algebra for doing that is "expand". Ann225 “I limited my search to the local area. ” "Out" is not so much wrong as redundant.
- ” "Out" is wrong because the word in algebra for doing that is "expand".
- Ann225 “I limited my search to the local area.
- ” "Out" is not so much wrong as redundant.
- You expand your search, never expand it out, but in your sentence, the wording is such that "out" becomes possible, if no more felicitous.
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Ann225“We need to expand (out) 5(3x + 4x^2).”
"Out" is wrong because the word in algebra for doing that is "expand".
Ann225“I limited my search to the local area. If I wanted to expand it (out), it’d take me longer to finish.”
"Out" is not so much wrong as redundant. You expand your search, never expand it out, but
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