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i went back home vs i returned back home

"I went back home" is the correct usage, because the word "back" would be redundant when used with the word "return."
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Last updated: December 10, 2017 • 96840 views

i went back home

This phrase is correct.

You can use this phrase to say that you returned to your home.

Some examples from our editors:

  • I went back home to feed the cat.
  • I felt like my presence wasn't needed, so I went back home.
  • Jul 21, 2017 ... It seems to me that both options: I went back home. and I went back to my home. can be used and are correct. Am I right?
  • Jul 9, 2024 ... I went back home to Wymore, Nebraska, to write about the EV revolution coming to rural America, this time in the form of a free electric school ...
  • Sep 30, 2022 ... Last month, I went back home to India from US. ; Top 5 Skills McKinsey, BCG, Bain Consultants Need · Sep 30, 2022. 52. 2 ; Why do we fall Bruce ?
  • Feb 22, 2022 ... Back in February, 2020 I went back home to The D to visit my brothers. Our little brother Mike is not pictured here.
  • Jun 17, 2019 ... ... I went back home to Big Timber last year. I miss the crazies every day.
  • Jan 15, 2024 ... I went back home to Beijing for a year. I missed Halifax while I was gone. I wanted to relocate to Canada permanently. READ: I've been waiting ...
  • Dec 27, 2020 ... This Christmas I went back home. Found a receipt for my Xbox and games. Purchased from my first tax refund.
  • Nov 28, 2018 ... Moving abroad for school changed my life—that's why I went back home. “When I ...
  • Jan 2, 2020 ... I went back home to Louisiana. I arrived on Friday feeling quite ill, so just like my middle school days I went to the doctor then spent the day with my Mom in ...
  • May 15, 2015 ... Yet when I moved out to go stay with a cousin, my mother made such a fuss that I went back home. And on my prom night my father came over ...

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • I returned home
  • I went back to my home

i returned back home

This phrase is not correct. Don't use it.

The word "return" means to go back, so to say you "returned back" is redundant.
  • When I returned back home, everything seemed so dull. I wanted to go back to Japan, and spent much of every day dreaming and scheming of how I could go ...
  • I returned back home at around 8pm very upset and aggravated and frustrated after all the grief they caused. I do not what to do now. Please help. Thank you.
  • Today I returned back home from the beautiful peninsula Texel. I met wonderful people and played at nice places. Friday till saturday I was performing in the ...
  • "However, when the film finished and I returned back home, I soon found that the UK was a closed shop. You needed a union ticket to work and you needed to ...

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • I returned home
  • I went back home

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