came
came — verb
1. the form of the verb 'come' that is used when talking about something that happe
the form of the verb 'come' that is used when talking about something that happened in the past — meaning that someone or something moved toward the speaker, arrived at a place, or happened at an earlier time
Asher came to the party late because his car broke down on the highway.
came + to + place (destination)
The delivery van came at noon, just as Élise was leaving for lunch.
came + at + time
Aoi came home from school looking tired and hungry.
When the ambulance came, the nurse rushed out to meet it.
A letter came from the bank asking us to sign the new forms.
文法句型
came + adverb/preposition
came + to + infinitive
用法筆記
Only the past tense of 'come'; the base form 'come' and past participle 'come' are different. Frequently used with prepositions such as 'to', 'from', 'into', 'out of'.
常見錯誤
came — noun
1. a thin piece of lead with a groove along its length, used by artists to hold pie
a thin piece of lead with a groove along its length, used by artists to hold pieces of colored glass together when making a stained-glass window or lampshade
The glass artist cut each piece of came to fit the curved shape of the blue glass.
countable: 'a came', 'pieces of came'
Rohan bought a box of old came from a glass workshop that was closing down.
mass noun: 'came' used without article
The church window needed new lead came to replace the brittle old strips.
Caio learned how to bend a came around the edge of a glass panel without cracking it.
Each came holds several small glass fragments in place to form the picture.
- lead strip
more general term that non-experts may use
- lead came
the full term; 'lead came' is more common than 'came' alone
文法句型
a came
pieces of came
came strips
用法筆記
This is a specialized term used mainly in stained-glass and church restoration contexts. Outside of art and craft settings, 'came' almost always means the past tense of 'come'.