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When something is from someone, the person gave or sent it. I got a gift from my grandmother today. When someone is from a place, that's where they started. I am Chinese. I come from Hunan province. Sorry I'm late. I just came from school. You use from to talk about distances between thing in space or time. Saturn is far from earth. School is 5km from my home. The year 2515 is a long time from now.

from

With the source or provenance of or at. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. (mathematics, rare) Denoting a subtraction operation. Beginning at (a point in time). Used to indicate the beginning point on a range or scale. Used to indicate a vast array or gamma of conceptual variations. Originating at (a year, time, etc.). With the separation, exclusion, removal or differentiation of. With reference to the location of a speaker or observer. Produced with or out of. Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of. with the separation, exclusion or differentiation of

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What do people use from to talk about?
  • What words indicate the Source of movement?
  • inference from results: the speaker infers the situation described from the evidence at hand (i.e. from the observable results of the causing event/action.)

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Simple sentences

I didn't know where it came from.
All I need to know about life, I learned from a snowman.
Can you tell wheat from barley?
What you say is quite different from what I heard from him.
There's a phone call for you from Akemi.
I sincerely hope that you will soon recover from your illness.
I hope it won't be long before I hear from her.
Please refrain from smoking, while the non-smoking signs are on.
Fear of pollution discouraged people from building homes near power plants.
We import coffee from Brazil.
I ordered a book from London.
The apple fell from the tree.
The lion ripped the flesh from the dead giraffe.
You're just running away from life's problems.
One can't expect everything from schools.
I want a boat that will take me far away from here.
I want a boat that'll take me far away from here.
The people from Madrid are crazy.
The people from Madrid are lunatics.
Is it far from here?
The train from Geneva will arrive at the station.
From the moment that I knew that the university existed, I've wanted to go there.
My apathy for voting comes from my distaste for politics.
The ascendancy of monarchs is what keeps their subjects from rebellion.
Yes, it happens from time to time.
Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college.
Johnson is a recluse; he prefers to isolate himself from the rest of the students in our class.
From the doctor's grim expression, it was clear he had somber news for the patient.
We could see the sunset from the window.

Movie subtitles

Then, did he come to find me all the way from Australia?
Even if you like me that much. All the way from Australia. Why would you come all this way?
Stella from 'Last Concert?
Helicopters fly from time to time.
From the looks of it, you've already ate dinner.
What are you going to do from now on?
If you concentrate on Zero too much, they will pull the rug out from under you!
I didn't think that a girl would be falling from above either.
When we're like this, it doesn't seem too different from being in Britannia.
You're from the motherland, Yuffie?
It's about that phone call from before.
Yes, it is information from Sir Curel.
From today on, I will be a student at Ashford Academy.
The profit-sharing bribes from the N.A.C.
Did you accept Euphy's future from the standpoint of a public official as well?
We're getting a feed from the stadium now.
Someone's hacking this in from somewhere!
From apple to planet: everything obeyed his laws.
It's a big fucking setback to lose a member of my crew, so I paid off Patti to hook a patsy from Nick's crew.
The thing is, usually I'm good at keeping secrets, but it feels weird keeping things from Nick.
Don't you? Four days later, Johnny came back from his suspension.
They also control the soccer pitch, which means if you want to play there, you have to ask permission from Frankie and his crew.
I don't know, but from the sounds of it, they're gonna go after bud and youssef.
So then we had to ask ourselves, where was the fucking hideout, and where were they launching the balloons from?
They like to stay mobile, launching from different spots, using different methods.
Since we couldn't stop them from launching their balloons, we had to stop them from getting the materials they needed to make the balloons.
Where do you come from?
I come from up there.
And I come from Japan.

News and current affairs

So what could justify another huge increase in gold prices from here?
It is therefore dangerous to extrapolate from short-term trends.
Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
In a matter of hours, more than 3,000 innocent people, mostly Americans, but also people from 115 other countries, had their lives suddenly and violently taken from them.
Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law-enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.
Even though new standards would apply to suppliers from all exporting countries, compliance costs usually vary, meaning that those less equipped to meet higher standards could suffer.
This is akin to a WTO test for departures from established international standards.
Instead, the crisis stemmed from the US sub-prime debacle, which quickly dragged the global economy into its deepest recession since the 1930's.
First, funds from different sources of finance are interchangeable to a certain degree: deficiency of funds for one component of total debt can be supplemented by surplus funds originally aimed at financing other components.
But where will increased competitiveness come from?
In the long run, America's growth pattern must undergo a structural shift from reliance on debt and consumption one based on Americans vaunted capacity for creativity and innovation.
Given that America benefits mightily from China's purchases of US government securities, it is difficult to understand why the US government and Congress have been complaining so much about the bilateral current-account deficit.
With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.
Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear - if more fragile than expected - winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.
Yet, history is unfair, and the US, despite its greater responsibility for today's global crisis, may emerge in better shape than most countries from the morass.
Once it was dark, a screen was set up and Mark showed home videos from space.
Later, I went on a tour that they organized to watch the launch of Charles Simonyi, the fifth (and soon seventh) space tourist, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
That leaves only about one-third of total federal spending from which to cut, and much of that goes to the defense budget, which Republicans will attempt to protect in the future.
This is too small a pool of money from which to achieve deficit reduction on the scale that the US will need in the years ahead.
This incremental approach has worked well in the past; indeed, today's European Union resulted from it.
With the euro looking less appetizing as a diversification play away from the dollar, gold's appeal has naturally grown.
Al Qaeda lost its base in Afghanistan when the Taliban government that had provided it sanctuary was ousted from power.
New groups constantly emerge from the ruins of old ones.
Reducing unemployment is desirable, of course, but many terrorists do not come from poverty.

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