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".
Verbal Ability
Sentence Correction
Difficulty: Easy
Choose an option
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Aout of
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Bout from
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Cout off
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DNo correction required
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ENo correction required
Answer
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.