Sunday, February 26, 2012

prepositions - From/ by usage confusion


I got burned from being in the sun for a few hours.



I got burned by being in the sun for a few hours.





In the above examples, I am confused by the prepositions by and from. I started Googling this out of my curiosity and seem to find both phrases being used equally. Is there a correct version, or are both equally acceptable?




It happened from being in the sun for two hours.



It happened by being in the sun for two hours.




In this above example, I'm more inclined to use from, but not totally sure.

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