Meaning trap
check out
leave a hotel
to pay your bill and officially leave a hotel or other place you have stayed in.
Don't mix these meanings
Same phrase, different job.
to pay your bill and officially leave a hotel or other place you have stayed in.
Another meaning of 'check out' is 'examine or look at'; compare the examples to keep the meanings separate.
Hear it in context
Notice where the phrase sounds natural.
- We need to check out of the hotel by 11 a.m.travel
- During my last trip, I almost forgot to check out of the hostel before catching my train.IELTS speaking
Fix the pattern
Pattern: check out (of something)
WrongWe checked out from the hotel at 10.
RightWe checked out of the hotel at 10.
'Check out OF a hotel', not 'from'.
Patterncheck out (of something)
Use it right
Choose the version that sounds natural in speech.
'Settle our account and vacate' is formal; 'check out' is the standard hotel term.
Build natural chunks
Words that usually travel with it.
check out ofof the hotelby 11earlylate
Don't confuse it
Not the same as 'check in,' which means to arrive and register at a hotel.
Related
- check out (examine or look at) — Another meaning of 'check out' is 'examine or look at'; compare the examples to keep the meanings separate.