phrasal verb · formal
come to light
/kʌm tə laɪt/come·to·LIGHT
task2speaking
to be discovered or revealed
Examples
“New evidence came to light during the investigation.”
“It later came to light that the company had falsified its accounts.”
“Several facts came to light only after the whistleblower spoke.”
Band 8 sentence
“Only after a lengthy audit did several discrepancies in the accounts come to light.”
Collocations
- come to light during the investigation
- new facts came to light
Word family
come to light vcomes to light vcame to light v (past)
Common mistakes
It has been come to light→It has come to light
come to the light→come to light
Say it for a higher band
5appear→6emerge→7+come to light
Synonyms
emerge
Easily confused
reveal
“The investigation revealed numerous accounting irregularities.”
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