Timeline for "Choose among" vs. "choose from"
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| May 24, 2016 at 6:12 | answer | added | vanille | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 26, 2013 at 19:32 | answer | added | fred2 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 14, 2013 at 15:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/378899861711904768 | ||
| Sep 13, 2013 at 22:50 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 22:35 | answer | added | Charles Crawford | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 18:36 | answer | added | dcaswell | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 18:25 | answer | added | Greg Hullender | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 19, 2013 at 13:26 | answer | added | Timtech | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 13, 2013 at 12:38 | comment | added | OpenSorceress | "From" - when the subject is separated from the group. Among - when the subject is still a part of the group. The question was wrong, or a trick. "From" or "from among" would have been correct. Among implies the chosen tie isn't in the process of leaving the other ties behind. | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 2:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 4, 2013 at 2:46 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Carlo_R.: To choose from isn't a "phrasal verb". It's just that the "selection pool" relevant to a specific usage of to choose can be optionally specified. And if it is specified, it's linked with a preposition such as from. Thus, "I chose from the menu" is valid. A direct object that can also be specified, as in "I chose lobster from the menu", or just "I chose lobster". But in no sense is there any kind of "phrasal verb" involved. | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 2:34 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't get this question. For me the best choice would be The man had to choose from among 6 ties for the interview. Credible alternatives include between and out of, as well as either of the "single word" options given by OP. | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 1:10 | history | edited | user19148 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2013 at 1:03 | comment | added | user19148 | @chost, so "to chose from" is a phrasal verb there, and, so, "from" is its particle and "among" the preposition? | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 1:01 | comment | added | Kevin | I agree with Choster. As a native speaker, my first thought was "from among," or "from amongst," and I wouldn't think anything of hearing just "from." However, "The man had to choose among six ties..." sounds off to me. | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 1:00 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 4, 2013 at 0:53 | comment | added | choster | The man had to choose from among six ties wouldn't be unusual either. | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 0:52 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Was this a fill-in-the-blank question or a multiple-choice question? If it was a fill-in-the-blank question, the people who designed the question may not even have realized that "from" was a possibility, and were expecting you to choose between "between" and "among", and not among "between", "among", and "from". | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 0:45 | history | asked | Rebecca Jones | CC BY-SA 3.0 |