I have read a sentence from “Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4”:
The teachers have really been cracking down on kids copying off of each other this year.
How to understand "off of"? Please parse it.
Answer
Off of in that context means from.
So the children are copying from one another and the teachers are trying hard to stop it.
Off of is quite informal. It is being used here because it's meant to be a child talking or narrating.
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