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A marker <e> can often have more than one function.

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A marker <e> keeps the letters <u> and <v> from being the last letter in a word.

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Take a look at the words came and come. In the word came, the marker <e> signals the long pronunciation of the <a>, but the word come is not pronounced with a long <o>.

Could the marker <e> in come signal a relationship between come and came?

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When you encounter a mysterious <e>, ask yourself how it might clarify the identity of the word.

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A marker <e> may signal the recognition of the morphemic structure of a word, such as a final <s> as part of the base word and NOT as the suffix <s>.

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Examples:
-laps / lapse
-teas / tease
-brows / browse
-pleas / please

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A marker <e> after a <th> may signal the <th> is voiced.

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A marker <e> after a <c> or <g> may signal the <c> or <g> is soft.

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A marker <e> may signal the preceding vowel as a long vowel.

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Sometimes the marker <e> is referred to as the silent E, magic E, or the essential E. It is more precisely described as a final, single, non-syllabic <e>. It is one of the most widely recognized orthographic markers.

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- final - it is located at the end of an element or word

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Examples: flake, theme, ride, cope, dune, byte

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Examples: bathe, breathe, teethe, clothe

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- single - it's not part of a digraph like the <ee> in tree

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- non-syllabic - it is unpronounced in the spoken word

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Examples: glance, voice, police, large, package, camoflauge

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Examples: blue, glue, dive, love

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Examples: The marker <e> not only makes the voiced <th> in the words bathe, breathe, teethe, and clothe. The marker <e> also signals the word is a verb rather than the related nouns: bath, breath, teeth, cloth.