"Suddenly a car came round a corner on the opposite side", please explain, Car came round a corner.
Please explain the below sentence:

- Suddenly a car came round a corner on the opposite side

for me, it's hard to understand, "Car came round a corner". Please give some examples to explain it.

Question

"Suddenly a car came round a corner on the opposite side", please explain, Car came round a corner.
Please explain the below sentence:

- Suddenly a car came round a corner on the opposite side

for me, it's hard to understand, "Car came round a corner". Please give some examples to explain it.

Answer

The phrase "came round the corner" is a shortened version of "came around the corner". If the car made a turn at the corner, then we would say "the car came around the corner", but often the word "around" gets shortened to "round", even though it isn't actually correct to do so.

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come round versus come around are the same thing. "Round" might be more spoken, but neither look odd written as such. "The car came round the corner on the opposite side (on the wrong side of the road obviously) and we hit head-on." Or you can substitute "around" if you like.

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You are driving along a road/street when another turns onto the same road or street that you are driving on (we say the car came around the corner)

I hope this helps

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