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Born vs. Borne
Born
/bɔːn/Examples:
My daughter Anne was born three months later.I was sixteen years old when you were born."And his child will be born with the same condition.
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Borne
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The plot twist was borne out of creative chaos.Their resilience was borne through countless trials.Innovation is often borne from necessity and challenge.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Born is related to the act of birth, think about birth and born both starting with the letter B.
- Borne is mostly used in the sense of carrying something — it carries the e from bear, which means to carry.
- Remember, born is almost always used for people and animals being brought into the world, while borne deals with the idea of being carried.
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