From or from

From or from? Together or separately? This is another one of the confusions generated by the diversity of grammatical rules present in the Portuguese language. After all, even those who were born in places with this official language have several doubts.

Before answering the question, let's understand what this phrase means.

The expression is used when we want to refer to the starting point of something. In addition, it is synonymous with: from, starting on, from now on and dating from.

So what's the correct way? From or from? The answer is: from. The expression from does not exist in the Portuguese language.

prepositional phrase

The expression from It is a prepositional phrase, that is, it is a set of two or more words in which the last one is a preposition.

The Portuguese language is composed of several prepositional phrases, such as:

• After
• abreast of
• Under penalty of
• Thanks to
• In order to

Examples with from

Check out some examples with the prepositional phrase now from:

• From today Maria sleeps in her room.
• The New Orthographic Agreement enters into force from January.
• From tomorrow I will do physical exercises.
• Pedro's trials begin from Monday.

From: with or without crasis?

This is another frequent doubt in relation to the locution, but know that from can never be written with crasis.

It is worth noting that signaling is only necessary when there is a contraction of the definite article Thewith the preposition The.

In this way, in the phrase from, there is no definite article, only the preposition The, then, nothing that gives rise to the need for crasis.

See too:

• Advice or accessory
• At last or in the end?
• sunset, sunset, sunset or sunset
• The end or the end?
• Too much or too much?