Return can mean go back or give something back.
The idea
Use return to the café for going back to a place and return the key to the hotel for giving an object back. Say return home without to. The past is returned.
Examples
- Please return the key to the hotel.
- She returned the book to the library.
- We returned home after the meeting.
- He returned the tool to his neighbour.
- When will the guests return?
- They returned to the café the next day.
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Return a book involves the book as an object; return to the library describes where someone goes.
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Choose the object being given back. Please return the ___ to the hotel; it opens the room. (key / idea)
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key
Key is the object being given back.
Choose the preposition before the receiving place. She returned the book ___ the library. (to / from)
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to
To introduces the place receiving the key.
Choose the natural phrase for going back home. After the meeting, we ___. (returned home / returned to home)
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returned home
Home needs no to in return home.
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Choose the object being given back. Please return the ___ to the hotel; it opens the room. (key / idea)
Choose the preposition before the receiving place. She returned the book ___ the library. (to / from)
Choose the natural phrase for going back home. After the meeting, we ___. (returned home / returned to home)
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Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Describe something you returned and a place you returned to.