What would be the implied object between "beg" and "off" when "beg off" is used an intransitive verb without an object?

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She begged off from the assignment because she didn't feel up to it.Q1) What would be the implied object between "beg" and "off" when "beg off" is used as an intransitive verb without an object?Given that "want out", "want to" are used in some English dialect without specifying "to be", I think the implied object would be "herself" or "to be" as in "She begged (herself / to be) off from the assignment because she didn't feel up to it" because it is "she" who wants to be off from the assignment.Q2) I guess "beg off" as an intransitive verb seems to have made from "beg to be off" or "beg herself off".Q3) Might these expressions "beg out of" or "beg from" correct as well if my guess is correct?I've found two sentences in which "beg out of" and "beg from" are used.They begged from the farmers, because they did not even have any food and water.Green Bay begged out of the annual turkey shoot Time till first championship

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She begged off from the assignment because she didn't feel up to it.
Q1) What would be the implied object between "beg" and "off" when "beg off" is used as an intransitive verb without an object?

By definition, intransitive verbs don't have objects, either explicit or implied.

To say "intransitive verb without an object" is redundant because there is no other kind of intransitive verb. They all lack an object. If you just say "intransitive", you've already said there's no object.

So there is no direct object of any kind.

fire1Q2) I guess "beg off" as an intransitive verb seems to have made from "beg to be off" or "beg herself off".

That is possible as a matter of the historical development of the phrasal verb "beg off", but when we analyze sentences, we don't consider the centuries of changes in language which brought us to this point. We analyze only what we see and hear now.

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Q3) Might these expressions "beg out of" or "beg from" be correct as well if my guess is correct?
I've found two sentences in which "beg out of" and "beg from" are used.
They begged from the farmers, because they did not even have any food and water.
Green Bay begged out of the annual turkey shoot Time till first championship.

You found examples, and there's no reason to think they're wrong. However, only the second one has the meaning of "begged off from" that matches your original sentence. "begged out of" is simply a variant of the same expression.

But be aware that they are not correct because of any guess you made about implied objects. They are correct because they are accepted by native speakers.

(To beg from someone is different. It means to ask for something in desperation — food, water, money — because you have no other means to obtain these things.)

CJ

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