Daria
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To escape (from) In a sentence like this: "It's something nobody can escape" can you just leave it like this or you should add "from" - "nobody can escape from"?
May 29, 2015 8:01 AM
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Both are possible, though the meaning may be slightly different, depending on what the object is.
May 29, 2015
Thanks GregS! Su.ki has written below there's a slight difference between the two. I wonder if this difference is just stylistic or the meaning actually changes a bit.
May 29, 2015
If you extend the example: The feeling of hopelessness is something nobody can escape. or Nobody can escape from the feeling of hopelessness. Same meaning, essentially.
May 29, 2015
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