COME ACROSS somebody or something

Mar 2, 2017

Study box. Read these sentences carefully.

1. While she was cleaning, she came across a pair of gold earrings.
2. I’ve never come across anything like this before. What is it?
3. Whose book is this? I came across it in a drawer.
4. She is the most difficult woman I have ever come across.
Use the sentences in the study box to help you do these exercises.
- Complete the meaning of ‘come across somebody or something’ by putting the words below into the correct place:
  
  chance • planned • meet
  
  to find or somebody or something by , without having or thought about it
- If you come across a book in a bookshop, which of the following might be true?
  - You didn’t know it was there.
  - Your teacher had told you to go to the bookshop and buy it.
- Which of these are grammatically possible?
  - She came a book across
  - She came across a book
  - She came it across
  - She came across it
Choose the right form of phrasal verb.
- Did you . . .
  come across anything
  interesting during your investigation?
  - come anything across
  - come across anything
- This is an unusual book. My father . . .
  came across it
  in the library.
  - came across it
  - came it across
- This is a recipe that I . . .
  came across
  in a French dictionary of cooking.
  - came across
  - came across it
- James is the strangest person I’ve ever . . .
  come across
  !
  - come across
  - came across
- Have you . . .
  come across a girl
  called Maisy White on your course?
  - come across a girl
  - come a girl across

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