2026-03-13
17 分钟English learners welcome to another phrasal verb episode I hope you're doing great and that you're ready to practice your English and learn some new phrasal verbs today in today's episode we're gonna look at the phrasal verbs clock in and clock out and the phrasal verb come across so first let's talk about clock in and clock out so this means that you register your arrival at work or your departure from work.
Meaning you start work and you register that you're starting or you're finishing work and you register that you're leaving,
you're done.
For example, I could say, I clock in at nine and I clock out at five.
Some jobs don't require you to actually register that you are clocking in or clocking out,
but some jobs do.
And in those cases, we often use these phrasal verbs here.
The other phrasal verb that I want to talk about is come across.
And there are two different usages of this that I want to talk about.
The first one means to meet or find someone or something by chance.
For example, I came across an interesting article about the subject.
This means that I found this article or it showed up on my screen by chance, by accident.
Maybe I wasn't searching for this exact article but it somehow came up and then I read it.
So I came across the article.
The other usage I want to talk about is usually with the word as afterwards, come across as.
This means to seem a certain way or to give a specific impression.
For example, she comes across as a nice, respectful little girl.
In this sentence, I'm saying that she seems like a nice, respectful little girl.
This is the impression that we get when we talk to her.
She comes across as a nice, respectful little girl.