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when do you say "where did you get that?" or "where did you get that from?" (or are they synonymous?)

If they're not synonymous, in what cases do you include the word "from" when you ask "where".

Thanks!

Marius Hancu · Accepted Answer

Especially if the thing is coming to you from another place, I would recommend using "from."

Aperisic · Answer

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when do you say "where did you get that?" or "where did you get that from?" (or are they synonymous?)

If they're not synonymous, in what cases do you include the word "from" when you ask "where".

Thanks!

A synonym is two or more words that have a similar meaning and which you can usually replace one for another. In your case you can only ask if these questions mean the same. Ok, now to the questions.

You ask

Where did you get that?

when you want to know the origin of something, and

Where did you get that from?

only when you expect the answer with from: I get it from the place, person

Get from is not a phrasal verb so you shouldn't worry about that, but get from is used only in some occasions and you do not have to hear after Where did you get that? I get it from… at all.

Get could mean buy, but buy from has a specific meaning, you do not say I bought it from the Wal-Mart… you say I bought it from you.

Milky · Answer

<A synonym is two or more words that have a similar meaning and which you can usually replace one for another. In your case you can only ask if these questions mean the same. Ok, now to the questions.>

Please note, the word "synonymous" was used and not "synonym".

synonymous http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=80855&ph=on
adjective
1 having the same meaning:
The words 'annoyed' and 'irritated' are more or less synonymous.

2 If you say that one thing is synonymous with another, you mean that the two things are so closely connected in most people's minds that one suggests the other:
Oscar Wilde's name is synonymous with wit.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=80855&dict=CALD

And:

Where did you get that from?

only when you expect the answer with from: I get it from the place, person

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Aperisic · Answer

Milky
<A synonym is two or more words that have a similar meaning and which you can usually replace one for another. In your case you can only ask if these questions mean the same. Ok, now to the questions.>

Please note, the word "synonymous" was used and not "synonym".

synonymous Show phonetics
adjective
1 having the same meaning:
The words 'annoyed' and 'irritated' are more or less synonymous.

2 If you say that one thing is synonymous with another, you mean that the two things are so closely connected in most people's minds that one suggests the other:
Oscar Wilde's name is synonymous with wit.

Sure milky, you are right, but none of the above is applicable to the initial question. It is not a synonymic case at all. Something to be a synonym must be more different. a small ball and a little ball is not a case synonym, though they mean the same.

Regarding get-got yes that is a mistake, but that was not the issue, rather from. Anyhow, I tried to help, not to be as meticulous as possible - I have better things to do in my life.

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