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What is the difference between run away and run off and escape ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between run away and run off and escape ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Run away usually means a person who ran from a bad situation.
The teenage boy ran away from home because his father hit him.
The girl ran away from the killer.
The wife ran away from her cruel husband.
Escape means that the person who ran was a prisoner or was being held by cruel people or a disaster,
The teenage boy escaped from basement of the killer.
The girl escaped from the bear's claws.
The prisoner escaped from jail.
The children escaped the terrible flood by swimming to a high spot.
The lion escaped from his cage.
Run off means to run away, but it is not so serious as run away.
The child runs off every time her mother cooks liver because she hates liver.
The dog ran off to avoid a bath.
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Thank you for teaching!
"i was ashamed so i wanted to run off"
is this correct?
"i was ashamed so i wanted to run off"
is this correct?
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thank you for teaching but why i can’t say “run off”??
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