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How to spell threw

What it means: To have sent something through the air.

In a sentence: She threw the ball to her friend. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as thru or threwed.

Sounds like, but is not: through. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: throw, throwing, thrown, toss. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Threw” is the past tense of “throw,” a very old English verb that goes back to Old English ‘thrawan,’ meaning to twist or turn. Over time, the meaning shifted to our modern sense of sending something through the air.

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