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respond vs respond back

Both 'respond' and 'respond back' are correct, but 'respond' is more commonly used in English. 'Respond back' is redundant because 'respond' already implies a reply or reaction to something. It is more concise and clear to use 'respond' alone.

Last updated: March 26, 2024 • 2455 views

respond

This is a correct and commonly used phrase in English.

Use 'respond' when you want to reply or react to something. It is a concise and clear way to indicate a response.
  • The Commissioner heard your point and can respond appropriately.
  • President Franklin Roosevelt knows he needs to respond quickly.
  • A few lunatics could still respond.
  • National governments and other institutions must respond adequately.
  • The sympathetic nervous system may respond with massive vasoconstriction producing hypertension.
  • Took the station mechanic 20 minutes to respond.
  • Patients who are treated earlier respond better to treatments.
  • County sheriff was the first to respond.
  • And you don't have to respond.
  • It's not necessarily passive to not respond verbally.
  • It's right to respond roughly to such treatment.
  • I was into my script, so I couldn't respond.
  • Trish this is Valerie, we must respond.
  • They're unable or unwilling to respond.
  • I will ask counsel once again to convince Miss Salander to respond.
  • Are local SHIELD units are under attack and unable to respond.
  • But you must respond in the appropriate Place.
  • They can respond with lights if necessary.
  • We're here to respond when needed.
  • Which means we lack the ability to respond, sir.

Alternatives:

  • reply
  • answer
  • react

respond back

This is a correct phrase, but it is less commonly used in English.

Although 'respond back' is correct, it is redundant as 'respond' already implies a reply or reaction. It is more concise to use 'respond' alone.
  • I've been sending out my feelers for our first gig, and the only place to respond back was this really weird goth club downtown.
  • Any available unit, respond to back up the fire department at 431 Westlake.
  • Don't let the fear of how he's going to respond hold you back.
  • The only way to respond is to push back.
  • Mr President, I welcome this opportunity to come back and respond briefly to the debate so far.
  • Better pull back and see if they respond.
  • Now, most people respond to being strangled by fighting back.
  • The Prime Minister himself, back at Westminster this afternoon, is yet to respond, casting serious doubts...
  • That is why I back the report and hope that the Commission will respond with an early evaluation of the EU scheme to aid afforestation.
  • Israel strikes back against terror, Israel retaliates, Israel responds.
  • The Irish referendum is a major problem, but it depends on us whether the European Union falls back into crisis this time or responds rapidly and decisively.
  • Firstly, we must look back and assess how we were able to respond to those events.
  • So, please, call me back... or respond to any of my forthcoming telegrams.
  • But you didn't respond to my note, so I don't know what else to do because now you're going back up to school.
  • If we do not respond I fear they are going to turn away and look back across the Pacific rather than look over to the European Union.
  • I started writing to her, and, you know, she had no good reason to respond, and then she wrote back.
  • Madam President, I reserve the right to come back in the second part of the debate, to respond to the comments that I am sure Vice-President Tajani will make.
  • No one disputes that the conventional framework of relations dates back to 1994 and cannot respond to the new geo-strategic and geo-economic circumstances.
  • Unemployment is also acting as a justification for ever more precarious employment, to which the Government responds with more attempts to set back labour rights.
  • When I say: 'yes, but there are statistical offices and Eurostat that can back this up', they respond: 'yes, but they are lying too'.

Alternatives:

  • respond

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