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Fri 14 Dec, 2007 11:39 am
I'll return the form to you then, once you've signed it, you can return it back to me.
Is 'return it back' correctly used?
Many thanks.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. I seriously doubt that any properly educated native speaker of English would use such a lame locution as "return it back."
One might write: ". . . you can return it to me." One might write: " . . . you can give it back to me." But no one who is normally articulate in English would write: " . . . return it back . . ."
Not to mention that "return" means "to give back", so you wouldn't repeat yourself that way - it's redundant.