Question

I could not refrain _____ shedding tears

Answer 1

Answer:

I COULD NOT REFRAIN from SHEDDING TEARS

Answer 2

I could not refrain from shedding tears.

EXPLANATION:

The sentence meant that ‘I could not stop after I started crying’. Refrain means that stop and ‘from’ comes in a sentence to specify the origin of a place, time and action etc., For example, I started from Delhi at 9 o'clock. In the given sentence the word from is used before the verb ‘shedding tears’(which is the origin of the action).