Sentence improvement: choose the correct preposition/particle to complete the phrasal expression Original sentence: "Friends and comrades, the light has gone away from our lives and there is darkness everywhere" Select the option that best completes the expression after "gone".

Difficulty: Easy

Correct Answer: out of

Explanation:

Given data

  • Clause: "the light has gone ___ our lives".
  • Task: choose the correct particle/preposition after "gone".

Concept/ApproachWith motion verbs such as go, the idiomatic pair for departure from a container/source is go out of (not "out from" and never "out off"). We say: "the light has gone out of our lives."

Option analysisout of — correct English collocation expressing movement from the inside to the outside. ✅out from — rare/unidiomatic here; typically used with a following verb phrase ("out from under").out off — ungrammatical combination.No correction required — incorrect because "gone away from our lives" is already present; if the blank replaces "away from", the correct replacement is "out of".

Common pitfalls

  • Confusing "out of" (correct) with "out from" after go in this metaphorical sense.

Final AnswerUse the idiomatic particle pair: out of.

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