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How to spell through

What it means: To move in one side and out the other.

In a sentence: The cat walked through the garden gate. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as threw or thru.

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

Same family: throughout, breakthrough, go through, get through, see through. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Through” comes from Old English “þurh,” meaning ‘from end to end’ or ‘by way of.’ Over time, English speakers also began to use it figuratively to mean ‘finished,’ as in ‘The show is through.’

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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