Escaping him: My　question is why it doesn't use "from" with "escape" and is use ing-verb.
Escaping Him 彼から逃げる
Today, I have a question about following sentence.
Unfortunately, for both Kuralt and Hartman, there was a downside to meeting someone like Joltin ... escaping him.
The sentence is from this site: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sales-legend-walking-in-different-shoes/
I wonder that "escaping from him" is a correct sentence.
My　question is why it doesn't use "from" with "escape" and is use ing-verb.
Can someone help me?

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As a verb, "escape" can be either transitive or intransitive. Both are correct.

The reason that the sentence uses "escaping" is pretty clear: it's a gerund. It needs to match "a downside", so it must be in gerund form.

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good question. as a native speaker, both sound correct, though I like "from him" better.
in general, we do escape "from" something.  You could say "like Joltin...escaping from him" and that is correct and for me, I prefer it

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