Timeline for "Without help from his family" or "without the help from his family"

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Jul 14, 2021 at 13:43	comment	added	Kevin		"Without the help from" can be perfectly natural, just not in this usage. As in, "Without the help from his family, he never would have successfully launched his business."
Jul 14, 2021 at 12:01	history	edited	fev	CC BY-SA 4.0	corrected a few mistakes that made a sentence incomprehensible.
Jul 1, 2021 at 6:43	vote	accept	Sanda
Jun 30, 2021 at 15:03	history	edited	fev	CC BY-SA 4.0	edited body
Jun 30, 2021 at 13:43	history	edited	fev	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 1127 characters in body
Jun 30, 2021 at 13:10	comment	added	fev		@DJClayworth Though very uncommon, some people do use it, and Ngram searches in books that were published. So I wouldn't completely dismiss it. Some think of it as meaning "without the help [he could have received] from". That would be grammatically acceptable. I am not advocating for "without the help from,", I am just saying it is rarely used and that it is better to avoid it.
Jun 30, 2021 at 13:01	comment	added	DJClayworth		Ngram is misleading, as there are other constructs with the same word sequence, and this answer does not explain why "the" is grammatically incorrect here (which it is).
Jun 30, 2021 at 12:47	comment	added	Weather Vane		Yes, and "without the help from his family" sounds unnatural, as if a non-native speaker hasn't quite understood the (admittedly difficult) use of the definite article.
Jun 30, 2021 at 12:34	history	answered	fev	CC BY-SA 4.0