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How to spell came

hear itcame/keɪm/verbLong vowels

What it means: To arrive at a place.

In a sentence: She came to the party with a big smile.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as camed or camee.

Same family: come, coming, comes, arrival, approach. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Came” is the past tense of “come” and comes from Old English “cuman,” meaning to move or arrive. It has stayed very common in everyday English for over a thousand years.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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