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How to spell swore

hear it/swɔr/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: To have made a serious promise.

In a sentence: Tommy swore he saw a shooting star last night.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as sware or swor.

Same family: swear, sworn, swearing, oath, promise. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Swore” is the past tense of “swear,” which comes from Old English “swerian,” meaning to take an oath or make a solemn statement. The vowel change from “swear” to “swore” is an example of an irregular past tense pattern that has survived in modern English from very old Germanic sound changes.

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