phrasal verb · neutral
look through
/lʊk θruː/look·THROUGH
task1task2speaking
1) to read or examine quickly; 2) to ignore someone or pretend not to notice
Examples
“I looked through the report quickly to check the main findings.”
“He felt his boss was looking through him during meetings.”
“Can you look through these references and pick the most relevant?”
Band 8 sentence
“Before the meeting I looked through the minutes from last month to remind myself of the outstanding actions.”
Collocations
- look through documents/reports
- look through someone (ignore)
Word family
look through verblooked through verb (past)looking through verb (gerund)
Common mistakes
look over→look through
look through someone (to mean read)→look through someone (to mean ignore) / look through a document (to mean read)
Say it for a higher band
5scan→6skim→7+look through
Synonyms
scan
Easily confused
scan
“I quickly scanned the article to find the statistics I needed.”
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