phrasal verb · neutral
come of
/kʌm əv/come OF
task2speaking
to be the result or outcome of something; used to ask/say what will happen as a result
Examples
“What will come of the new policy remains to be seen.”
“Nothing much came of their negotiations.”
“It's hard to say what will come of this experiment.”
Band 8 sentence
“It is difficult to predict what will come of the pilot program until more data are available.”
Collocations
- what will come of ...
- nothing came of ...
Word family
come of verb phrasecame of verb (past)coming of verb (gerund)
Common mistakes
come from→come of
what will come from this?→what will come of this?
Say it for a higher band
5result from→6stem from→7+come of
Synonyms
result from
follow from
Easily confused
result from
“Many of the problems resulted from poor planning.”
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