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20 January
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What is the difference between expansion and extension ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between expansion and extension ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (US)
Trade helped the expansion of Mexico’s economy.
The extension of winter break caused tests to be rescheduled.
- English (US)
When something is expanded, the entire thing is getting bigger or longer etc
When something is extended, something is added on to make it bigger or longer etc
- English (US)
Extension means to make something longer, while expansion means to make something bigger.
Ex:
1) I extended the deadline for your assignment so that you have more time to work on it.
2) I want to expand the size of the school so that we can have more students.
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