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Osmancataloluk Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

I have a sentence to be checked, please.

. We went downstairs into the living room and turned back to the routine we had been doing.
  

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"Turned back" is not correct in this sentence. We went downstairs into the living room and resumed the routine we had been doing. We went downstairs into the living room and returned to the routine we had been doing.

— Englishmaven

  • "Turned back" is not correct in this sentence.
  • We went downstairs into the living room and resumed the routine we had been doing.
  • We went downstairs into the living room and returned to the routine we had been doing.
  • You would use "turn back" if you were reading and went back to a previous page.
  • You are on page 12.
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"Turned back" is not correct in this sentence.

We went downstairs into the living room and resumed the routine we had been doing.

We went downstairs into the living room and returned to the routine we had been doing.

You would use "turn back" if you were reading and went back to a previous page. You are on page 12. You want to see something on page 10, so you turn back t
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osmancataloluk . We went downstairs into the living room and turned back to the routine we had been doing.
I'd write that differently.

We went back downstairs to the living room and resumed our activities.

CJ
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Thanks a lot dear mentor,
With regards to the example of "turn back," can I say,
The first of the following week, we turned back home in Amasya very late at night.
How is this?
regards
osman
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