Guests check out when they complete the departure process for a stay. Mina checks a museum out to see what it is like. The word order and of help distinguish leaving from investigating.
The idea
For hotel departure, use check out or check out of the hotel. For the informal examining meaning, use check out the museum / check the museum out, but check it out. The verb is two words.
Examples
- We checked out of the hotel after breakfast.
- Lea is checking out while Omar brings the bags.
- What time do we need to check out tomorrow?
- Mina checked out the small museum near the station.
- Mina checked the small museum out before buying a ticket.
- This café looks interesting; let’s check it out.
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Watch out
Check out the hotel usually means look into or visit the hotel to see what it is like. Check out of the hotel means finish your stay. Merely leaving the building for lunch does not necessarily mean checking out.
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Choose the correct option. We ended our stay and checked out ___ the hotel. (of / for)
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of
The stay is ending, so the hotel follows out of: checked out of the hotel.
Choose the correct option. The museum looks interesting. Let’s check ___. (it out / out it)
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it out
The pronoun it replaces the museum and sits between check and out.
We want to visit the café to see what it is like. Choose the phrase for examining it. Let’s ___. (check it out / check out of it)
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check it out
The café is being examined, not left after a stay: check it out fits this purpose.
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Choose the correct option. We ended our stay and checked out ___ the hotel. (of / for)
Choose the correct option. The museum looks interesting. Let’s check ___. (it out / out it)
We want to visit the café to see what it is like. Choose the phrase for examining it. Let’s ___. (check it out / check out of it)
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Write one sentence about finishing a hotel stay and one about exploring a possible place to visit. Use of for the hotel departure and it out for examining a place.