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Can you persuade out of your father into selling his car?

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Can you persuade your father not to sell his car?
Can you dissuade your father from selling his car?

Exodus74 · Answer

Is it correct if I say this?
Can you persuade out your father from selling his car?

dissuade=persuade out
I would like to build sentence with the phrase(persuade out)

Fivejedjon · Answer

exodus74Is it correct if I say this?Can you persuade out your father from selling his car?dissuade=persuade outI would like to build sentence with the phrase(persuade out)

These forms are not possible

Mister Micawber · Answer

exodus74Can you persuade out your father from selling his car?

No.

exodus74dissuade=persuade out

That is not right.

exodus74I would like to build sentence with the phrase(persuade out)

Why would you want to use a questionable formation? COCA produces only 3 examples, of which only one is couched in standard English

One is not actually this structure:

...in Iraq and swayed key opinion-makers in the Bush administration, who then managed to persuade seven out of 10 Americans that the Iraqi dictator had a role in the attack.

And the third is spoken casually:

...not gonna tell your company, so stop it. That's how they persuade them out of groping on a train.

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