phrasal verb · neutral
put through
/pʊt θruː/PUT·through
to connect someone by phone; to make someone experience something difficult; to cause a proposal to be accepted
Examples
“Could you put me through to the HR department, please?”
“She put him through a lot during their relationship.”
“The board put the plan through despite objections.”
Band 8 sentence
“When I called reception, they quickly put me through to the person in charge.”
Collocations
- put someone through to department
- put someone through an experience
Word family
Common mistakes
Please put me through the manager.→Please put me through to the manager.
They put him through a training = they trained him→They put him through training / They trained him.
Say it for a higher band
5connect→6subject someone to / train→7+put through
Synonyms
connect
subject someone to
Easily confused
connect
“Can you connect me to the sales department?”
subject someone to
“The prisoners were subjected to harsh conditions.”
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