happen

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noun

Happen is used after these nouns: ↑break-in

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verb

ADVERB

▪ actually, really

▪

She couldn't quite believe that all this was actually happening to her.

▪ just

▪

I don't remember learning to swim, it just happened.

▪ never

▪ spontaneously

▪

Sometimes fun activities just happen spontaneously; at other times they take careful planning.

▪ overnight, quickly

▪

Change doesn't happen overnight.

▪ again

VERB + HAPPEN

▪ be going to

▪

They could only wait and see what was going to happen.

▪ be likely to

▪ be bound to

▪

Mistakes are bound to happen sometimes.

▪ tend to

▪

What tends to happen is that students spend the first week of the course in a blind panic, but settle down by the second or third week.

▪ want sth to

▪ make sth

▪

You have to make things happen if you want them to happen.

▪ let sth

▪

Don't just sit back and let it happen.

PREPOSITION

▪ to

▪

She didn't know what was happening to her.

Happen is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑abuse, ↑accident, ↑assault, ↑attack, ↑avalanche, ↑breakthrough, ↑burglary, ↑catastrophe, ↑change, ↑coincidence, ↑collision, ↑crash, ↑crime, ↑deal, ↑death, ↑disaster, ↑earthquake, ↑emergency, ↑eruption, ↑event, ↑evolution, ↑explosion, ↑fit, ↑incident, ↑injury, ↑innovation, ↑killing, ↑leak, ↑magic, ↑meeting, ↑merger, ↑miracle, ↑mistake, ↑murder, ↑phenomenon, ↑riot, ↑skirmish, ↑smash, ↑thing, ↑tragedy, ↑transformation