I hear this increasingly often these days.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> Here is yet another perfectly understandable verb — “distribute” — that has become seen by many speakers and writers of American English as requiring the preposition “out” after it. It doesn’t!<\/p>\n Look at the same example sentences with “out” removed:<\/p>\n We do not lose any clarity by removing “out” from each of the original sentences, Instead, we gain clarity because the listeners or readers are not wondering why “out” was added.<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I hear this increasingly often these days. Problem: The preposition “out” is unnecessary here. Explanation: I hear “distribute out” in sentences such as these: “I’ll distribute out the PowerPoint presentation tomorrow.” “Can you distribute out the notes from what you found?” “She would like for him to distribute out to us the notes from last…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-english-blunders","category-verbs"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe preposition “out” is unnecessary here.<\/p>\n
\nI hear “distribute out” in sentences such as these:<\/p>\n\n
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\n“… distribute [something] …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"