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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Lesson 339--Burst into something emotional


English has some great ways to describe things.  Today we are going to look at spontaneous emotional things.  When we want to describe this we often use the following phrases:

burst out

break out into

burst into

examples

Jonathan burst into tears when he saw the scene of the car accident.

Daniel burst into laughter when he saw his sister's bridesmaid's dress.

 
The whole stadium broke out into a huge cheer when the goal was scored.

The audience burst out shouting for an encore.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Lesson 275--Rush into something


Today's phrasal verb means to do something without thinking.

examples

Jim and Mary rushed into marriage and divorced in less than a year.

Theresa did a lot of research because she refused to rush into anything.

Paul always regretted rushing into university without knowing what he wanted to study.