Phrasal Verb Fun

come to, come round to
Poor Henrietta is shocked by the violence on the TV and she has fainted.
Alice puts a rag dipped in floor cleaner under her nose. She comes to.
She is conscious now. She has come
to
her senses.
We also say
come round
to mean the same thing.
Another way we use this verb means 'to arrive at'
Mr Salesman was very happy. "I see you have come to the right
decision," he said.
If you want to suggest that this took a long time, you might want to say
'come round to the right decision.'
COME TO as in ‘regaining consciousness’ is a
two-word verb without an object
COME TO with an object is an
inseparable two-word verb
No problem either.
COME ROUND TO is a
three-word verb
No problem.
come under
When we classify things we tend to put them
under
different headings.
Normally at the top of the blackboard or the planning sheet we put the
most general things down to the most particular ones at the bottom.
At school, physics, chemistry and biology come under the heading of the
sciences, while English, French and literature come under the arts.
We can say
fall under
to say the same thing.
Inseparable two-word verb
No problem.
come up against
Often,
up
has the idea of reaching a limit, while
against
always has the
idea of 'confrontation'
Esmeralda wanted to be a policewoman, but she came up against the
fact that she was not tall enough. So she had to
give up
her dream.
Come up against a barrier, a strong obstacle to what you want.
Three-word verb
No problem
.
come up to
Cows usually come up to the electric fence to graze, to eat their grass,

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even if there is a huge field to choose from.
Up
often means reaching a limit.
Come up to means reaching the limit but not crossing it. There is not the
sense of frustration that there is with
come up against
.
The plans for the new motorway lowered the prices of all the houses in
the neighbourhood. There were protests everywhere. Nobody wanted to
live next to the noise and the smell. ‘But,’ said my father. ‘If it comes up
to it, we’ll sell the house anyway. We’re not going to live next to that.’
Three-word verb
No problem.
come up with
Einstein was once asked how he had so many ideas. He said that he had
only come up with one idea in his lifetime.
Sometimes in the old days we must have imagined that our minds lived in
our stomachs. (Remember bring up in the sense of vomit.) Well, you can
certainly
bring up
a new idea into the conversation.
Also, you can come up with a new idea. It means exactly the same.
Three-word verb
No problem.