2020-12-31
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด R – Return & return back
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Return = ‘ri-TURN’
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choose the Right Synonym for return
Verb
RECIPROCATE, RETALIATE, REQUITE, RETURN
mean to give back usually in kind or in quantity.
RECIPROCATE implies a mutual or equivalent exchange or a paying back of whatone has received.
reciprocated their hospitality by inviting them for a visit
RETALIATE usually implies a paying back of injury in exact kind, often vengefully.
the enemy retaliated by executing their prisoners
REQUITE implies a paying back according to one's preference
and often not equivalently.
requited her love with cold indifference
RETURN implies a paying or giving back.
returned their call return good for evil
Collins COBUILD English Usage
return
1. going back
When someone returns to a place,
they go back there after they have been somewhere else.
I returned to my hotel.
Mr Platt returned from Canada in 1995.
Be Careful!
Don't say that someone 'returns back' to a place.
Return is a fairly formalword.
In conversation and in less formal writing,
you usually use go back, come back, or get back.
I went back to the kitchen and poured my coffee.
I have just come back from a trip to Seattle.
I've got to get back to London.
Return is also a noun.
When someone goes back to a place,
you can refer to their arrival there astheir return.
The book was published only after his return to Russia in 1917.
In writing, if you want to say that something happens immediately
after someone returns to a place,
you can use a phrase beginning with on.
For example, you can say 'On his return to London, he was offered a job'.
On her return she wrote the last paragraph of her autobiography.
2. giving or putting something back
When someone returns something
they have taken or borrowed, they giveit back or put it back.
He borrowed my best suit and didn't return it.
We returned the books to the shelf.
Be Careful!
Don't say that someone 'returns something back'.
3. 'bring back'
When people start using a practice or methodthat was used in the past, don't say that they 'return'the practice or method.
Say that they bring it back or reintroduce it.
He thought they should bring back hanging as a punishment for murderers.
They reintroduced a scheme to provide housing for refugees.
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Return back
A redundancy.
Use just “return,”
unless you mean to say instead “turnback."
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Return back
Return, implies going or coming back to
a former place, position, or condition.
Omit back from this expression:
“It is not easy to return (not return back) go one’s childhood home.”
