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How to spell swam
What it means: Moved through water by moving the body.
In a sentence: The duck swam across the pond.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as swum or swamm.
Same family: swims, swimming, swum, swimmer. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Swam” is the simple past tense of “swim,” a very old English verb that comes from Proto-Germanic roots meaning ‘to move in water.’ The same ancient root is also related to words in other Germanic languages like German “schwimmen.”
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