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 fromcome of

what will come from this?what will come of this?

Say it for a higher band

5result from6stem from7+come of

Synonyms

result from

follow from

Easily confused

result from

Many of the problems resulted from poor planning.

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