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Phrasal verb “come”

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Phrasal verb “come”

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Come about
1st meaning: to happen.
Examples: Can you tell me how the accident came about?
How did this project come about?
2nd meaning: To change the direction in which a ship is traveling.
Examples: We need to come about because it seems we've gone off-course.
We were about to come about when the wind suddenly died down.

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Come across
1st meaning: Literally, to cross something, such as a bridge or road, when traveling.
Once you come across Eagle Road, you can turn onto my street.
2nd meaning: To find or see someone or something incidentally.
If you come across my jacket, please let me know. I forget where I left it.
3rd meaning: To submit or yield to another's wishes.
I think he was beginning to see the benefits of our plan, but he'll never come across now that you'
ve insulted him!

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Come after
1st meaning: To be positioned sequentially after someone or something else.
Oh, my exit comes after the one we just passed, so we're almost there.
2nd meaning: To pursue or seek out someone or something.
The police will come after you once they find out you were involved in this crime too.
3rd meaning: To be a lesser concern than someone or something else.
Your schoolwork needs to be your main focus —
all of your commitments to sports and extracurriculars come after that.

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Come along
1st meaning: To go with another person to a particular location or gathering.
Feel free to come along with your sister tonight—we'd all love to see you.
2nd meaning: To materialize or emerge.
I would have told you about it sooner, but the job offer only came along yesterday.
3rd meaning: To improve or make progress.
His guitar playing is really coming along—he can play songs now, and they sound pretty good!

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Come at
1st meaning: To approach an issue or situation.
I think we should start over because we've been coming at this problem all wrong.
2nd meaning: To move toward someone or something in an aggressive or hostile manner.
You can't come at a cat like that, or you'll scare it off.
3rd meaning: To achieve or attain something.
She can come at this scholarship with good grades and hard work.

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Come before
1st meaning: To happen or exist before someone or something else.
I can never remember which verse comes before the bridge.
2nd meaning: To formally present oneself to another person or group.
Due to your inappropriate actions, you will have to come before a disciplinary committee.
3rd meaning: To be more important than something else; to be prioritized over something else.
I'm constantly reminding my kids that schoolwork comes before any social events.

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Come apart
1st meaning:
To break, crumble, or disassemble into smaller pieces or components (unintentionally); to fall a
part or come undone.
The cookie was so soft that it just came apart in my hands.
2nd meaning: To become very emotional.
Poor Jane really came apart during the funeral service.

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Come back
Meaning: To return.
Go away and never come back.

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Come down
1st meaning: to descend from a higher point to a lower one
A lot of trees came down in the storm.
2nd meaning: to decrease.
The price of that car has come down from twenty hundred dollars to seventeen hundred.
3rd meaning: to criticise
The manager really came down on him for losing the contract.
4th meaning: to reduce
It all comes down to money in the end.
5th meaning: to fall ill
She came down with flu.

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Come round
1st meaning: To call, to visit.
Would you like to come round for dinner?
2nd meaning: To regain to consciousness.
The woman who fainted came round after we splashed a little water on her face.
3rd meaning: Change one’s mind.
My mother was opposed to my moving so far away but she came round in the end.

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Come into
Meaning: To inherit.
She came into a lot of money when her grandmother died.

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Come off
Meaning: To detach from something else.
One of the wagon wheels came off.

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Come out
1st meaning: to publish
His new book came out in September. — Его новая книга вышла в сентябре.
2nd meaning: to ascertain, to disclose
It came out that he had been lying all the time.
The details of the scandal came out in the press and she had to resign.

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Idioms
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Come off it! Tell me the truth! — Да перестань! Скажи мне правду!
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Come on, don’t give up now when you’re so close to finishing. — Давай, не сдавайся, когда
ты уже так близок к тому, чтобы закончить.
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Take a lighter. It will come in handy in a cave. — Возьми зажигалку, она пригодится в
пещере.
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Gas stations did not come into use before 1850. — Заправочные станции не
использовались до 1850 года.
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Come rain of shine, I’ll come back for you. — Что бы ни случилось, я вернусь за тобой.
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I felt it was time to come clean and tell her what the doctor had told me. — Я чувствовал, что
пора было признаться и рассказать ей, что мне сказал доктор. (come hell or high water,
come what may have the same meaning)
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If worst comes to worst and the hotels are full, we can sleep in the car. — В самом худшем
случае, если в отелях нет мест, мы может переночевать в машине.
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