"Plugging in X" vs. "plugging X in"

Question

Does one say

Plugging in that value into the previous equation...

or

Plugging that value in the previous equation...

or something else?

pluggin in into is for sure wrong - if you remove the in in the first sentence I think you will be fine — mplungjan, Apr 11 '11 at 06:19
Well... I have used "substitute" many times in my text. Therefore I have sometimes decided to plug in "plug in" instead of "substitute" ;-) — Marco, Apr 11 '11 at 08:19

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 30 '11 at 11:12

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A combination of your two examples would be correct:

Plugging that value into the previous equation..

In this sentence you are dealing with the phrasal verb 'plug in', which has then been split by the noun ('that value').

edited Oct 30 '11 at 11:12

answered Apr 11 '11 at 06:24

Karl

I did not have any documentation for my suggestion so I made it a comment.. – mplungjan Apr 11 '11 at 09:13
@mplungjan: Thank you for your comment as well. I upgraded it! – Marco Apr 12 '11 at 19:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '11 at 14:46

1

Either "Plug in that value" or "plug that value into" are fine depending on the rest of the sentence, but not "Plug in that value into".

answered Apr 11 '11 at 14:46

Kevin

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