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How to spell fly
What it means: To move through the air.
In a sentence: The bird can fly high in the sky.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as flie or fliy.
Same family: flew, flown, flying, fly by, time flies. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb "fly" comes from Old English "flēogan," meaning "to move through the air." Over time, English speakers began using it figuratively for time and events, so we now say things like "time flies" when something seems to pass very quickly.
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