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come from
If you come from a particular place, you were born there, or it is your home.
‘Where do you come from?’ – ‘India.’
I come from Zambia.
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Don't use a progressive form in sentences like these. Don't say, for example, ‘Where are you coming from?’ or ‘I am coming from Zambia’.
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