- Following vs followings - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I looked up the dictionary, Merriam Unabridged, and it is the following — the following: the following one or ones — used to introduce a list, a quotation, etc <The following are some other symptoms of the condition: excessive sweating, fever, muscle aches … — Fred Cicetti, The Montague (Massachusetts) Reporter, 15 Oct 2009>
- word choice - As following vs as follows - English Language . . .
You can use the following instead (e g "You must do the following: blah blah blah"), but you needn’t "You must do the following: blah blah blah"), but you needn’t Less stiff would be The reasons for these decisions are these , or Here are my reasons , or My reasons are, first,…, and the like
- definite article - The following vs. Following - English Language . . .
They're not just any examples, they're specifically the following examples, as opposed to the best examples or the examples of history or the examples I found in my sock drawer Whether something has been mentioned before is a good rule of thumb, but it is not the only rule for when you should use the definite article
- grammaticality - How to say on page x and the following pages . . .
Not “page 42 and the following” The adjective following calls for a noun It looks like you're using “the following” to mean “what follows the current point in the text” or “something that follows” or “the next few lines” “Page 42 and the following pages” sounds correct
- grammar - Which of the following statement or which of the following . . .
I have seen both expressions online I don't think "which of the following statement" is grammatically correct but I'm not a native speaker so I'm not sure Which one of them is more reliably correct?
- meaning - using **to follow** or **the following**? - English Language . . .
I was reading a vocabulary book came across with: The excellent soup was harbinger of the delicious meal to follow I am confused of the "to follow" I know we can say "a delicious meal to eat" w
- grammar - following or according to? - English Language Learners . . .
I would like to know if I should use following or according to when referring to some guidelines, such as in the following example: Stunting was diagnosed when a patient’s height was smaller than 1 40m, for men, or 1 30m, for women These cut-off points were defined following according to World Health Organization guidelines on anthropometry
- Use of In the following - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
In the following, we outline how this can be done – user153465 Commented Jun 27, 2016 at 9:39 Add a
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