phrasal verb · neutral
run over
UK/rʌn ˈəʊvə/US/rʌn ˈoʊvər/RUN·o·ver
speakingtask2
1) to hit someone or something with a vehicle; 2) to quickly go through something
Examples
“Be careful crossing the street — a car almost ran me over.”
“Let’s run over our answers before we submit the test.”
“The meeting ran over its scheduled time by twenty minutes.”
Band 8 sentence
“We quickly ran over the presentation to check for any factual errors before presenting to the panel.”
Collocations
- run over someone/ideas/a meeting
- almost run over
Word family
run over phrasal verbrun over (noun: run-over) noun (hiếm)
Common mistakes
The car run over him.→The car ran over him.
I will runover the answers.→I will run over the answers.
Say it for a higher band
5hit→6go over→7+run over
Synonyms
hit
Easily confused
go over
“Let's go over the main points one more time.”
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