https://www.cuh.nhs.uk/patient-information/techniques-to-distract-yourself-from-unhelpful-thoughts/

Thank you, grumbler!
distract yourself -будем знать

В вашем варианте - distract herself

Это понятно.

Distract herself - это когда она сама отвлекалась от тревожащих мыслей. А если ее отвлекал друг - he distracted her from…

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Anna, thank you!

Думаю, все-таки лучше he tried/helped her to distract herself (/her mind) (from...)

Я думала над этим вариантом. Но Google выдает первый вариант и я думаю второй все таки неправильный.

“Distract herself“ doesn’t work here because it’s reflexive, and somebody ELSE was trying to help her.

Uly, thank you for your time and help!

My pleasure!

+++Anna || Good instincts! 👍🏻

Thank you, Uly! I think that “instincts” is not the correct word here. I’ve been studying English since I was 8 years old. I had a very long break in using it. But sometimes I just pronounce a phrase to myself to check if it’s correct, I mean to check if it sounds like English. I’m not sure how this is called. Maybe a “feel for the language”. That’s what I found via Google. I guess that it’s similar to a Russian phrase «чувство языка».
P.S. I must say that as for me it doesn’t always work. )

It’s an instinct. It instinctively didn’t sound right to you 👍🏼

Ok. )

Uly, я встретила такое предложение:
He should go out and take his mind off of was he was dealing with.
Можно ли в нашем примере употребить helped her to take her mind off of…? (Очевидно сходство с одним из твоих вариантов:)

Конечно можно. Это очень даже распространено 👍🏼

Можно: helped take/get/keep her mind off things

А, спасибо большое! И ещё: of здесь лишнее?

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