A guide helps visitors become familiar with a place.
The idea
Show someone around means guide that person through a place. It is common in everyday speech. Say show the guests around or show around the guests; a pronoun goes before around: show them around.
Examples
- I showed our guests around the school.
- Can you show me around the garden?
- A guide showed the visitors around.
- We will show them around tomorrow.
- She showed her cousin around the museum.
- Our neighbour is showing a new family around the village.
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Watch out
Do not put a pronoun after the particle: say show us around, not show around us.
Try it yourself
Choose the correct option. Please show ___ the office. (me around / around me)
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me around
me around puts the pronoun before the particle.
Choose the correct option. Yesterday we ___ our guests around the farm. (showed / shown)
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showed
showed is the past form for yesterday.
Choose the correct option. Can you show the children ___ the library? (around / away)
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around
around completes the expression for a guided visit.
Practice round
Answer questions and rebuild English sentences to practise. Your score is shown.
Choose the correct option. Please show ___ the office. (me around / around me)
Choose the correct option. Yesterday we ___ our guests around the farm. (showed / shown)
Choose the correct option. Can you show the children ___ the library? (around / away)
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Describe a place you could show a visitor.