When should I use “Figure out the rest” vs “figure the rest out”? Does it matter?
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I'm writing something where a character tells someone else vaguely something that that she did in the past and then tacks on "I'll let you figure out the rest" at the end.
Then some of the notes of the person proofreading my work suggested I have her say "I'll let you figure the rest out" instead.
What he suggested seems totally fine... but what I initially put seemed just as equally viable to me. So I asked myself if it matters and if it does then which should I use here?
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I'm writing something where a character tells someone else vaguely something that that she did in the past and then tacks on "I'll let you figure out the rest" at the end.
Then some of the notes of the person proofreading my work suggested I have her say "I'll let you figure the rest out" instead.
What he suggested seems totally fine... but what I initially put seemed just as equally viable to me. So I asked myself if it matters and if it does then which should I use here?
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I'm writing something where a character tells someone else vaguely something that that she did in the past and then tacks on "I'll let you figure out the rest" at the end.
Then some of the notes of the person proofreading my work suggested I have her say "I'll let you figure the rest out" instead.
What he suggested seems totally fine... but what I initially put seemed just as equally viable to me. So I asked myself if it matters and if it does then which should I use here?
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I'm writing something where a character tells someone else vaguely something that that she did in the past and then tacks on "I'll let you figure out the rest" at the end.
Then some of the notes of the person proofreading my work suggested I have her say "I'll let you figure the rest out" instead.
What he suggested seems totally fine... but what I initially put seemed just as equally viable to me. So I asked myself if it matters and if it does then which should I use here?
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The wording of "I'll let you figure the rest out" sounds far less idiomatic than "I'll let you figure out the rest."
Google Ngrams supports this:
Additionally, in this situation, I believe that "out" is being used as a preposition, making this not only non-idiomatic, but also grammatically incorrect.
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If you follow the modern trend and call such particles intransitive prepositions, then maybe so, but out has to follow a pronoun (figure it/that/something out), but far less frequently with nouns, but even that usage is grammatical.
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The wording of "I'll let you figure the rest out" sounds far less idiomatic than "I'll let you figure out the rest."
Google Ngrams supports this:
Additionally, in this situation, I believe that "out" is being used as a preposition, making this not only non-idiomatic, but also grammatically incorrect.
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If you follow the modern trend and call such particles intransitive prepositions, then maybe so, but out has to follow a pronoun (figure it/that/something out), but far less frequently with nouns, but even that usage is grammatical.
– KarlG
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The wording of "I'll let you figure the rest out" sounds far less idiomatic than "I'll let you figure out the rest."
Google Ngrams supports this:
Additionally, in this situation, I believe that "out" is being used as a preposition, making this not only non-idiomatic, but also grammatically incorrect.
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If you follow the modern trend and call such particles intransitive prepositions, then maybe so, but out has to follow a pronoun (figure it/that/something out), but far less frequently with nouns, but even that usage is grammatical.
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1 hour ago
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The wording of "I'll let you figure the rest out" sounds far less idiomatic than "I'll let you figure out the rest."
Google Ngrams supports this:
Additionally, in this situation, I believe that "out" is being used as a preposition, making this not only non-idiomatic, but also grammatically incorrect.
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The wording of "I'll let you figure the rest out" sounds far less idiomatic than "I'll let you figure out the rest."
Google Ngrams supports this:
Additionally, in this situation, I believe that "out" is being used as a preposition, making this not only non-idiomatic, but also grammatically incorrect.
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If you follow the modern trend and call such particles intransitive prepositions, then maybe so, but out has to follow a pronoun (figure it/that/something out), but far less frequently with nouns, but even that usage is grammatical.
– KarlG
1 hour ago
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If you follow the modern trend and call such particles intransitive prepositions, then maybe so, but out has to follow a pronoun (figure it/that/something out), but far less frequently with nouns, but even that usage is grammatical.
– KarlG
1 hour ago
If you follow the modern trend and call such particles intransitive prepositions, then maybe so, but out has to follow a pronoun (figure it/that/something out), but far less frequently with nouns, but even that usage is grammatical.
– KarlG
1 hour ago
If you follow the modern trend and call such particles intransitive prepositions, then maybe so, but out has to follow a pronoun (figure it/that/something out), but far less frequently with nouns, but even that usage is grammatical.
– KarlG
1 hour ago
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