English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

English Grammar
English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part 'to home' in the sentence: They returned back to home after the event.


Options:

  1. back to their house
  2. returned to house
  3. returned home
  4. went back to house

Right Answer: returned home

The original sentence 'They returned back to home' contains a common redundancy error. 'Returned' already conveys the idea of going back, so adding 'back' again is repetitive. Additionally, 'home' functions as an adverb of place in English, similar to words like 'here' or 'there', so it does not require the preposition 'to' before it, unlike 'house', which is a noun and does need a preposition. The grammatically correct and concise version is simply 'returned home'. The other options either retain the redundant 'back' or wrongly pair 'house' without a preposition, making them incorrect. This is a classic SSC sentence-improvement trap.

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