errand

Converse of object

• run: Initially he was just running an errand from Dad back at home to his brothers in the ranks.
• do: Death will return with his errand done, leaving a dark shadow on the morning.
• go: On Wednesday afternoon I asked him what he would like for tea, and I went out for the purpose of going an errand.
• have: This usually means I have a little errand to run.
• combine: Walk, cycle, make greater use of public transport, or simply combine errands into one trip.
• make: David spies an opportunity to make the errand less onerous and asks his mom to give him a lift.

Adjective modifier

• same: Possibly a comrade of Antoine's on the same errand.
• little: You were given a little errand by the executors, weren't you?
• few: A walk into Ossett to sort out a few errands seems like the best way to get over jet-lag.
• other: I was small then so the other errands had to wait.
• small: For quick income, he often ran small errands for an elderly man of substantial wealth who had taken Peter into his trust.
• own: She had her own errand and her own friends.

Modifies a noun

• boy: He left school at 12 to be an errand boy at a local printing business.
• runner: At 12 he was forced to leave school to take up a job as an errand runner to help to feed his family.

Noun used with modifier

• run: Some parents could not pay the fees, or kept their children at home to mind the house or run errands.
• fool: Getting everyone to realize that every single data error potentially sends people on a fools errand is a critical success factor.
• thine: Prithee, be brief, and speak thine errand quickly.

Possessives

• fool: Mr Simpson went on to give his views about Gulf War III, a fool's errand.

Preposition: in

• trip: Aim to do your errands in a round trip.

Preposition: of

• mercy: Long may he continue on his errand of mercy.