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It’s correct, as whence means “from where”, so adding “from” would be redundant.

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TIL! So if you replace “whence” with “from where”, is “go back to from where you came” grammatically correct?

Also, you’re answer prompted me to search, and I found this neat answer about the history of whence vs from whence; apparently from whence has been (mis)used for centuries!

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Perhaps I should have been more clear. I didn’t mean it’s a direct substitution for “from where”, just that that’s its meaning. A grammatical translation of the sentence would be “go back to where you came from”.

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Ahh, that makes way more sense. Thanks for explaining!

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