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risk + V-ing

Band 5-6speakingtask2

to do something that may cause a bad or dangerous result

Examples

“He risked losing his job by refusing to follow orders.”

“You risk getting wet if you go out without an umbrella.”

“They risked missing the train by leaving late.”

Band 8 sentence

“By ignoring safety protocols, the company risked causing serious harm to both staff and customers.”

Collocations

  • risk + V-ing (risk losing, risk damaging)
  • take the risk of + V-ing

Word family

risk verbrisk noun

Common mistakes

He risked to lose his money.→He risked losing his money.

They risk to miss the deadline.→They risk missing the deadline.

Say it for a higher band

5risk to + V→6risk + to + V→7+risk + V-ing

Synonyms

run the risk of + V-ing

Easily confused

take the risk of + V-ing

“She took the risk of investing her savings in a new business.”

Related words

look forward to + V-ingtry + V-ing / try to + Vfor + somebody + to + Vavoid + V-ingbe likely to + Vbegin / start + V-ing / to + Vprevent + somebody + from + V-ingturn out + to + V

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In Gerunds & infinitives

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