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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 • 97128 views

This phrase is correct.

"i went back home"

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

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

"i returned back home"

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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