Come Came Come

Come normally describes moving toward the speaker or toward a place considered as "home," and it can be used for literal movement or for events and ideas arriving.

Came is the simple past of come and is used to describe an arrival or approach that happened at a specific time in the past.

The past participle come is used with perfect tenses like the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect to show that an arrival or event is relevant to another time.

Phrasal verbs with come often have idiomatic meanings related to arrival, appearance, discovery, or events, so learning a few common ones helps you understand and sound natural.

Use come for movement toward the speaker or a reference point, came for past arrivals, and the past participle come with perfect tenses; learn common phrasal verbs to capture idiomatic meanings.