What the correct option?
Example sentence:
Look, this is exactly what happened. I was hanging my laundry on the clothesline, there was a gust of wind, and my favorite T-shirt---the one that says, 'Love Life'---slipped out/from/off the clothesline.
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An alternative: blew off or even flew off – mkennedy Aug 19 '17 at 18:24
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- The boy slipped out of or from the room when his mother wasn't looking.
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- The shirt slid off the clothesline as it was not securely pinned to it.
Another example:
A person slips out of or from a place.
A thing or person slides off where it is.
slip out implies a person doing something stealthily. Slide off describes the manner in which a person or thing moves off a thing. For a person, it can be involuntary or voluntary. The verb is slide, slid.
Slipped out implies the T-shirt is in the line, which is incorrect.
Slipped from implies the T-shirt and the line were initially in the same location, however does not explain how.
Slipped off implies the T-shirt was initially ON the line, which is the best usage.
Hope that helps!
