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Why are we using から and not を in the following sentence?:

> 出て行く：同居している恋人が家から出て行って、別に住むようになる。

I ask because the normal particle with 出る is を (eg 家を出る) so why do we have から
here? My dictionary has the following sentence:

部屋から出て来なさい｜Come out of your room.

Do the 行く・来る verbs which normally take から in some way dominate over other
verbs related to the action if the other verb is intransitive?
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grammar word-choice particles particle-を particle-から
Use of から vs を with 出て行く?:
から is really only used to designate the location/point/time from which things
start, whereas を is a rather generic particle.

Because of this, から makes the reader mentally picture a time range
(今夜から明日にかけて雪になります), a motion (東京から大阪へは３時間かかります), a coverage (揺りかごから墓場まで), etc.
In contrast, を just doesn't have this sense of motion/breadth/width. And so
when this effect is useful, you'll intentionally choose から.

In the sentence you give, I think this is why the author went for から, even
though を would have been OK, too. Here, we are talking about someone ending a
relationship and moving out. The emphasis on the movement by から reinforces the
split better, compared to 家を出て行って.
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Adding just a bit more to Mr. Kawaguchi's answer, I think that 家を出る is usually
heard in a situation where someone (a teenager, a spouse) leaves the home
where they are "supposed to be", often under not good circumstances (running
away from home, domestic violence, imminent divorce, ...). C.f. 家出

In this case, the situation is about a presumably unmarried couple, where one
person decides to move out of the place they were sharing, and because they
were not married and therefore the 家 was not officially the place s/he was
"supposed to be" から was a more appropriate word choice. から also seems to
convey a sense of 離れる, whereas 家を出る feels like cutting off all contact.
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